Timing ~ 2

Too early and too late
Too early for memory
Too late for good-byes

What should be said
How should it be said
Is there any right time to speak love and loss

The spirit of motherhood has passed ~
early and late ~ from hands and hearts of our mothers
to those mothers remaining on this earth

Too early and too late
Too early for memory
Too late for good-byes
But never too late to live as they would have lived.

“The timing of death, like the ending of a story, 

gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.”

~ Mary Catherine Bateson