Words cannot express the emptiness I feel when I reflect upon the fact that my dear sweet mom is gone.  There is a saying "you don't know what you have until it is gone" and in the death of my mom that applies to me.  My mom loved her children with all her heart and always showed love and would try her hardest to comfort the best way she knew how.  Sometimes I would be sad and she would end the phone call telling me to "chirp chirp" meaning "cheer up cheer up"......I would call her and she would be there with a soft, gentle reassuring voice that always understood and would try to pass on wisdom from all that she had been through in her life....She loved animals especially elephants and her favorite dog that she named "Puppy" and of course as my sister Erin said she loved her coffee.
My mom was a very diligent hard working person who had overcome many things in her life, her life was far too short in all the good that she gave to this world...she is dearly missed... 

Death can be a very abrupt thing to deal with and it is hard because it the finality of it, but everything has its place and time.  I believe my mom is at peace....I only have felt that I should have appreciated her more and this poem made me cry after she died because it is so true.......it seems to be written for a child but....it still stirs conviction to appreciate life and the time we have here on Earth with our loved ones.

~Carrie~