There are days when I need you more than you need me, my child.

There are days when I am so tired, so desperate and disappointed in everything that I just want to lie next to you and close my eyes while you cling to my palms with your tiny fingers.

There are days when your hug warms my heart so much that it gives me new strength, even though I thought it wouldn’t be possible.

You are undoubtedly the one who knows me best, the one who for nine months listened to the beat of my heart that I loved without even seeing you, the one that I wanted more than anything else, the one that made me made the happiest person in the world.

My child, thank you for being here with me, for you can lie beside me and sleep peacefully and forgive me the days when I am not the mother I promised myself I would be.