MARY BRODINSKI

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MARY BRODINSKI May 14, 1922 - November 20, 2009 May I go? May I go now? Do you think the time is right? May I now say good-bye to discomfort filled days and numerous suffering nights? I've lived my life and tried to do my best. Gentle, loving, giving is what I've always tried to be. So may I take that step beyond and set my spirit free? I didn't want to go at first. With your tender care and unending hope, I fought with all my might, but something seems to draw me now to a warm and loving light. I really do not want to leave you, I really don't but it is growing more and more difficult to stay. I will try my best I can to give you one more day, to give you time to care for me and share your love and fears. I know you're sad and frightened because I see it in your endless tears. I will not be far, I promise you that. I hope you will always know that my loving eternal spirit will be close to you always and forever... Wherever you may be or go. Thank you so much for loving me in such a beautifully compassionate way. You know I love you too, that is why it is so heart-breakingly hard to say good-bye and end this life with you. So hold me now this one last time with gentle trembling hands and let me hear your soft voice and feel your gentle breath as you tenderly utter into my ear your loving and compassion filled final words I Love You Mom ... and please know that you unselfishly allowed and freed my soul to pass onto a place of beauty and wonder that is free of pain and suffering knowing you loved and cared for me in such a selfless way you'll let me go today. My Beautiful Mother You were loved by all those who had the honour of knowing your loving spirit. I will forever miss your innocence, your purity of love, your gentle tenderness, your unassuming ways, your patience and tolerance, your total acceptance and most of all... your absolute unconditional love. If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane I'd walk right up to Heaven and bring you home again. Please know that your beautifully pure and loving spirit will rest and live on forever within my heart. Good-Bye My Beautiful Mother Good-Bye My Wonderful Friend Love Always Your Loving Son Larry

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Dec 19, 2009