Hearts that will never stop beating together
This is a story of distance and hearts that will never stop beating together. Mother, today I’m not speaking to you from close by. I’m not speaking from the chair at the family table at home, nor from that corner where you waited for me so many times.
Today I’m speaking to you from afar, with a broken voice and a heart full of longing. Because I am here, where life brought me. Where everything seems to move forward: people, days, time itself. Where there are moments, Mother, when everything within me stops and you appear. You are in all my memories, in the aroma that reminds me of your cooking.
The best seasoning I’ve ever tasted. You are in a phrase that has stayed etched in my soul. And I am myself again. Someone who is not afraid, because she knows your arms are there.
Mother, I didn’t leave to forget you.
I left because of what you taught me: to fight, to move forward, to keep going even if it hurts a little. And even though we’re far apart, there is something that this distance hasn’t been able to take from me.
And that’s how much I miss you. I owe you so many hugs. The kind that words can’t describe.
The kind that heal, the kind you can’t explain. I owe you the chance to sit with me without looking at the clock. I owe you the chance to hear your voice without the call dropping.
I owe you an “I love you,” said softly, but straight to my face.
And even though life keeps me here and far away, there isn’t a single day that I don’t walk with you. You’re in every step I take, in every effort, in every night when I look at the sky and think of home.
Mother. If these words reach you, I want you to feel them for what they are. A hug, a long, endless, and tight one.
One of those I promised you without a date, and that I’ll never forget. Wait for me, because I owe you that hug, and it’s the first thing I’m going to repay you.
Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers, but especially to those who are waiting. Because there are children like me, who, although far away, have never truly left.
