Let us Choose

                                                           

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Dear mom,
I will keep this short.
Please hear me, please hear my plea.
I do not harbor ill feelings of your past failures.
Failures you are having a hard time letting go of.
Failures that are some how interfering with our relationship.
You are my mom.
The only thing I know how to do, is love you.

Dear mom,
I will keep this short.
Please hear me, please hear my plea.
I forgive you.
I forgive you for anything that you feel went wrong.
I forgive you for anything I expected of you that you were not able to give.
You are my mom.
The only thing I know how to do, is love you.

Dear mom,
I will keep this short.
Please hear me, please hear my plea.
I cannot change how you feel about your failures.
I can only change how I feel about your failures.
I choose to forgive, but not forget.
Not so I can hold it against you, but so that I learn from it.
You are my mom.
The only thing I know how to do, is love you.

Dear mom,
I will keep this short.
Please hear me, please hear my plea.
I choose to change.
I choose to let the difficult--change me.
I think it has changed me for the better.
You are my mom.
The only thing I know how to do, is love you.

Dear mom,
I will keep this short.
Please hear me, please hear my plea.
Forgive me.
Forgive me, where I have hurt you.
Forgive me, where I have failed with you.
Forgive me, where I am not giving you what you need.
Forgive me for not telling you sooner.
I am your daughter.
I know, all you know how to do, is love me.

Let us choose to change.
Let us choose to let the difficult--change us.
I think it will change us for the better.
We are mother/daughter.
The only thing we know how to do, is love each other.