Unless You Are a Mother and other things painfully private
Original drawing by Sarah Steele Unless you are a Mother, and I don't care which kind, you don't know. You don't know what it is to love before you even know, to grieve the way a mother grieves the pain, the sadness, the joy and the happiness associated with motherhood, you just don't know. You don't know how helpless it is to stand by and watch during tough times, during good times, during painful times as your child tries to right herself and get through because she can't let you down. I stand and watch the pain, the sickness and the frustration and I wish, I pray, I hope there will be something I can do to simply make it stop. When people are unkind, when life is unkind when she suffers, when she is unwell. The floor is cold, but I sit there with her until it passes. I rub her head, if that is what she wants. I fetch a cold, wet cloth if that is what she wants. I rub the scen...