Mommy, I tear up everytime I hear the star spangled banner, becasue when I close my eyes, I can still see you laying beside me in bed, your fingers playing with my curls, and it's you I hear singing... to me- my nightly lullaby.

Mommy, do you hear me when I cry out at night? Are you what calms me and helps me sleep those nights? Do you ever sit by my bedside and sing softly while I sleep?

Mommy, do you ever watch me from heaven? Are you proud of what you see? Do you ever stop and lose youreself in thought of me, as I so often do of you?

Mommy, I was 5, standing in front of you in a casket. I can feel myself sobbing, trying despretly to lay beside you. To have one more smell of your perfume, to have just one last feel at your hair, and to hear you say you love me, just one last time.

Mommy, people wonder why I am not big on looking in the mirrors but it's not because I don't care. It's becasue each time I do, it kills my heart a little more, seeing you in me... Mommy, I'd do anything to feel you're touch just once more.

Mommy, I wish you could have been there for my first prom. Daddy said the first time he saw me all dressed up like that, he had to take a second look, becasue he swore he saw you standing in the doorway... Mommy, is heaven wonderful?

Mommy, I remember how you used to cry at the happy endings of all my Disney movies... and I got that from you too. But now, everytime it rains, I imagine the rain drops are you're tears from heaven, reminding me of your love.

Mommy I really miss you. I'll turn 18 this year. I know you've been gone for 12 years come Valentines Day, but my heart still aches. Mommy, I have you're eyes, your hair, you're smile.. I have it all. Mommy, what's heaven like? ....

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

A life without love is like a year without summer.