As a daughter …
As a wife….
As a mother…
You give yourself selflessly
To make sure everyone is ok…
To make sure everyone is seen…
But in all of this chaos
Who will make sure…
You are not lost…
That you are seen too…

A song wafts in…
from the window next door..
into mine…
In a language from a foreign land..
words I cannot understand..
Bringing tears to my eyes…
Touching me so…
Connecting me to my neighbour next door…
Who I don’t know…

I spent days..
laying in bed
not able to get up
tears flowed endlessly..
my life felt in shambles
unliveable…lost….
days went by…
watching  myself disintegrate
Then one day…
I dragged myself out of bed
I took a warm shower
got dressed in my favourite dress
put on makeup
went for a walk in the Park
felt the warm sun on my back
sweet smell of lavender
in my nose
and somehow life seemed worth living again
slowly ….but surely….
I found myself again…