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The Stars Are Angels In Disguise
February twenty-second a day of sadness.
Maybe next will be a day of madness.
I climb out my window thinking about the day last year.
When my Mom told me the stars are secretly angels in disguise.
Now that she's gone I look to the stars bright in the dark winter night sky.
I scan the sky seeing each star.
Seeing if she is one.
Maybe she's the beautiful big shining blue star.
I hug myself as the chilly February night air comes running at me.
I remember how my Mom used to wrap an arm around my shoulders.
She always noticed when I was cold when were sitting on the old swing set in the front yard on those chilly winter nights.
She'd point out which one's she thought were her lost loved ones.
Like her Mother , her childhood friends , her grandparents.
Then she'd turn to me and say.
"When I'm gone at night when your looking at the stars remember that I'm always looking down at you."
The first night she told me that I made a vow to myself.
That when she was gone every night I'd look at the stars outside and remember her.
I'd remember her smile.
The sound of her laughter.
Remember how she told me she'd always be looking down.
So tonight the first night she's gone I stand up carefully from my position on the roof.
I look back up and wave to the big shining blue star and say.
"Goodnight Mom."
Before climbing back through my bedroom window.
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When I was only the age of sixteen my Mom started to get very sick on New Year's Eve she was in excruciating pain I called an ambulance and she taken to the closet hospital. The Doctors did some tests when a Doctor back came back with the results of a scan I held my Mom's hand which she squeezed tightly. The doctor had sighed and kneeled down next to the bed so he was eye level with my Mom. He said "Their is no easy way to tell you this but you have three masses in your lungs." She stayed over night and within a couple weeks she was still in the hospital but when they didn't have the proper equipment for further tested she was transferred to Strong Hospital. Where they did a biopsy and said she does have cancer and it was terminal she only had a few weeks left to live. Everyday me and my Dad made the hour trip so I could see my Mom he never stayed in the room since they had divorced eight years prior I stayed for hours at a time she had me read her books and stories that I wrote.On February 21st the day before she passed. She told me "Remember the stars are angels in Disguise and I'll always be looking down at you." The next day she had slipped into a coma and passed away. I was the first one to notice she stopped breathing. I was always encouraged by my Mom to keep writing and become a published author with a best selling book like I always dreamed.So everynight I still keep my vow.I look at the stars and remember my wonderful Mother because I know she is still watching out for me from above.