𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗥𝗬: “To Live is to Be With You” by Edralyne Dela Cruz

Layout by: Chrisian Jaira Barles

Published by: John Kurt Gabriel Reyes

Date Published: May 12, 2024

Time Published: 8:25 PM

Category: Prose

Theme: Reflection of a Mother-Child's life. 

There were different ways to approach life but you have to choose one while blinded in a womb of the unknown. 

Living is as hard as breathing beneath the water as life is a pool of problems. Though I confusedly swam while hearing the song of the sea, I knew it was you guiding me to the nearest island—for you were certain I'd be unharmed. 

I may be less than twenty, but Wincy Spider will always be known to me since that is what you taught me; to be as tough as Wincy! But all courage disappeared when the rain washed everything because, unlike Wincy, I fell from trying many times. But unlike Wincy, I have you to walk to with a heavy eye cowardly. To cry my heart and soul. To say what I felt after being crumpled and doubted. 

I'd crawl back to the cradle if I could and ask you to sing me a lullaby because everything's been rough. I barely knew what path to take. I've been redirected and deeply wounded, so I go back to you because you're the only one who understands me most, from my past until the present. 

Yet after all the times that I tried and fell down, you still told me that I'd be above the world, twinkling like a little star, and I thank you a million times for guiding me in a bright path of my future.

So I know what brings my future, with me in your womb, you will. With you holding my hand, we will, Mother.

IMAGE SOURCE:

Yamamoto, K. (2008). mother and child [Image]. Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/27335551@N04/2841055337/