Mothers' Pain

I am in no way qualified to talk about the legal mess that the murder of yet another black motorist by police personnel is unfolding to be. 

What I am reacting to most strongly is the heartbreak of yet another mother who will now carry in her heart and spirit the powerlessness to help her own child, when the world outside her influence has decided that her child should die. This is nothing new, as we all know. The pain and anguish, anger and nausea that overwhelms mothers, time and again, all the world over, since the beginning of time, is too much to bear. 

What would you do --what would I do-- if my adult child cried out for me in their final moments? 

It's too much to think about. Too much to process. 

Mary saw Jesus on the cross; she lost her son to the world. 

Mamie Till Mobley identified her mutilated son; she lost her son to the world.

RowVaughn Wells stands before the cameras, broken, because she, too, has lost her son to the world.

The list is vastly incomplete, but the pain and loss covers us all. 

--C