Chapter 5: Moving on
Pity the child but not forever
Not if he stays that way
He can get all he wanted
If he's prepared to pay
Pity instead the careless mother
What she missed
What she lost when she let me go
And I wonder does she know
I wouldn't call – a crazy thing to do
Just in case she said who?
Locker room, Mother's day 2005
"Hi, you heading home?"
"Hi Nick" Greg smiles at him. "Yes, in a minute."
"Are we alone?"
"I think so."
Nick wraps his arms around him.
"So, I figured out what's been going in with you today?"
"You know…"
"Yeah, I know; Mother's day. You need some time alone tonight?"
"No, I think I'll stay with you this year, if that's okay."
"Sure baby, always."
"Just give me a minute, will you? I'll meet you at the car."
"Sure." Nick gives him a light kiss and leaves him alone.
Slowly he reaches for the card he had carried with him all day. He looks at the cover and read the words printed on the card:
"A sunbeam through your window, a thought that makes you smile, and reminders all day long of how special you are."
"Hope you are OK mom", he thinks before pulling out his blue ink pen.
He sits down on the bench and writes the same words as every year before. "I Hope you have found peace somewhere. You gave me sunshine in the past. You made me strong enough to carry on. I hope you too will learn some day, that what is inside you is beauty, untouched by his destroying acts.
Printed inside the card: "Have a beautiful Mother's Day "
Without further hesitation, he closes the card and opens the wooden box he has stored at the back in his locker. He opens the lid and lay the card down and places it on top of the other cards he'll never send.
- THE END -