hospital mama

I just need to accept / embrace that I'm a mum with a child who may be in and out of hospital 

and be thankful for whatever I can

she is stoic

and brave 

and only the dried track of a tear that rolled down from the corner of her eye towards her temple as her head bent towards her pillow betrays that all is not well 

and I brace myself 

to cheer her up

be in her corner 

brace myself 

to gun down my fears of the future 

and laugh at the irony

that her therapist said just yesterday that the only thing we can say .that it won't be tomorrow 

but it was