Goodbye Forever, Mom
She stared down at my body and murmured, "Sophie! Don't leave me! Mommy loves you..."
And then, overwhelmed, her eyes rolled back, and she collapsed.
I stood beside her, utterly confused. What even was love supposed to be?
Wasn't love supposed to make someone happy? Make them feel cherished?
Why did my mother spend my whole life hitting me, cursing at me, never once favoring me, saying such vicious things that she drove me toward wanting to die?
And only after I was dead, decide to say she loved me?
Was this really what she called love?
Mom, I think, all of a sudden, I don't want your love anymore.