Poetry as Therapy

As a teenager I wrote poetry; in secret, not something I ever shared. It was just a way to explore my teen angst. 

Today I decided to begin again using poetry as therapy.

A year? No. More has passed.

That anguished news still pains,

Never forgotten, simply pushed down,

Her life extinguished,

My life forever changed,

She was my beacon,

She was my friend,

She was my mother.