He was lying on the table. < img src = "https://zycie.news/crrops/8f68A6/620x0/1/0/2025/03/16/0hsli87Wte5AVPUTZ5Z0RHJ7NPDT4ND0nswu.jpg" alt = "from life taken." Quot; Mother wrote a letter to my daughter from the nursing home " styles = "background-color: rgba (118,94,77.0.57)" > < p > ordinary envelope. Ordinary sheet of paper in the middle.

< p > but my hands were trembling when I opened it.

< p > letter from the mother. From the nursing home.

< p >< em > “my dear C & oacute; reczko,

< p >~ 60 > I am writing to you this letter, although I do not know if you will read it. Maybe you'll find time, or maybe you'll put it on p & oacute; and no longer to it. But I write anyway, because it is the only thing I have left & ndash; words.

< P >< I > I devoted my whole life to you. Every moment, every breath. I didn't regret a single second because you were my world. When you were born, I understood the first time what true love is & ndash; the one who is & oacute; raza does not expect anything in return.

< p >< em >I didn't have much, but I tried to give you everything. I was tired, sometimes I cried at night because I was afraid that I wouldn't give you what you deserve. I remember sitting at the lamp, donating your clothes so that you always look neat. How I put away the money for several months so that you could get your dream doll for a birthday.

60 > and then you grew up.

< p >< em > and suddenly everything changed.

< P >< I > I don't know when I became a burden for you. Maybe when I stopped keeping up with your pace of life ? maybe when my wrinkles became too visible to you ? maybe when I started to forget about things that & oacute; re for you were obvious ?~ 60 > < p >~ 60 > when you told me that I couldn't live alone anymore, I knew it was the end of my old life. You packed my things and took me here, M&P; Oacute; That I will take care, company, that I would not be lonely.

< p >< em >But, c & oacute; reczko, I have never felt as lonely in my life as now.

< p >< I > I sit by the window and look at the world, which & oacute; ry stopped noticing me. Days, weeks, months pass. The faces change around me, but none of them is yours.

< p >~ 60 > I remember how you promised you will visit me. You were still coming at first. Less and less often, but always with a smile, always M&P; Oacute; you have little time, but next time you will come for longer.

< p >< em > and then you stopped coming at all.

< P >~ 60 > I saw other women here & ndash; As their children fall with bouquets, the flower & oacute; w, how they laugh together, remember the old times.

60 > A I ?

I sit in silence, waiting for steps that are never coming.

< p >~ 60 > sometimes pr & oacute; I rock comfort. M & oacute; you think you have your life, your problems. That you probably don't have time. But the night comes, and I lie in my room and I think: is it so hard to find an hour for my own mother ?

< P >< I > I do not write that you feel guilty. I do not want to accuse you.

< p >< em > but I want you to know that I miss.

< p >< em > that I wait.

< p >< em > that I have no longer anyone, only you.

< p >< em > and that I would love to that one day, at least for a while, wet & oacute;

~ P >< em > I will always wait.

< p >< em > mama “

< p > I moved my fingers on paper.

< p > tears dripped on letters, blurring ink.

< p > I caught the keys and ran out of the house.

< p > I didn't know what I would tell her when I see her.

Natasha Kumar

By Natasha Kumar

Natasha Kumar has been a reporter on the news desk since 2018. Before that she wrote about young adolescence and family dynamics for Styles and was the legal affairs correspondent for the Metro desk. Before joining The Times Hub, Natasha Kumar worked as a staff writer at the Village Voice and a freelancer for Newsday, The Wall Street Journal, GQ and Mirabella. To get in touch, contact me through my natasha@thetimeshub.in 1-800-268-7116