Motherly Daughter

We all have that person that we can not stand to hear or watch cry. That person use to be my grandmother on my fathers' side, however she passed away in 2008. It is hard to believe that was almost a decade ago now.

I did not expect it to turn into my mother because I am her daughter. Honestly, I have been the reason she has cried in the past. My mother is that person to me now. I can not stand to hear her cry. I can not stand to hear pain in her voice. When she struggles, I feel worried almost immediately when I feel the stress pressure from her voice.

My mother taught me how to laugh and smile. She taught me things were not always as bad as they seem. I wish I could have always had her back like she had mine. The truth of the matter is she went through a lot before I was ever born or became an adult. I was the last child of her three, her only daughter. I was what she prayed for and now she is who I pray for.

My mother taught me how to pray and be strong. My mother taught me what criticism was. She is brutally honest. She experienced the most of criticism from her childhood home. My mother is unbelievably smart. I have an attitude like my mother with my dads temper.

My mother is safety net. Anything I have ever done wrong was always fixable. She would guide me to fix it.

My mother is so graceful. She is my inner voice, that I hear all the time. She is powerful and a queen. Queens should never cry because they have to be strong for their country. Just like mine is strong for me.