My Mum Is An Angel

​she watches over me in the stillness of the day,
when the noise of the world moves in she flushes the sounds away.
I feel her pulse within my heart, my veins are filled with love,
she brings my body warmth and peace, she’s the wind from high above.
I missed you when I was away, I cried there by your side.
My journey ended suddenly when I heard that you had died.
Your smile I see within my mind your smile was so sincere,
you showed me love, you showed me strength, you showed me what was dear.
If I could change but just one thing your voice I’d love to hear,
to hear your stories one more time I wish that you were here.

​​With in my hands I hold a gift a knowledge that I know,
you never sighed or held me back you drifted with the flow.
You never judged or got involved, you let me live my life
to honor you for ever seems such a tiny price.
My wish is that I could be at least half of what you were,
Your shoes to fill are just so big a rustle and a stir.
I find my shoes and wear them proud the footsteps that I take,
​a difference in this world I hope like you that I will make.

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​​You were my stone made of steel when times were not so good,
You always believed I’d make a difference, you always believed I could.
I have become twice the soul, for you reside within my being,
I never dreamt in my lifetime that this is what I’m seeing.
Strength within that is not mine that comes direct from you,
I felt it enter settle inside, deep within I knew.
That you were here to guide me through each day with grace and ease,
Your one and only wish on earth was to help, comfort, and please.

​​I am so much more now that you’ve left it seems just so surreal,
that now I am the two of us, inside me you I feel. I love you mum forever.
Rhonda Hofmans Johnson