The cost of love

i just lost my mother this past Monday and the pain is still fresh. She was the only Mother I will ever have, and that lasted 59 years on this side of eternity. I loved her dearly, and the cost of that love is now grief. Even in the grieving, it is still worth it all. The cost of love is grief, but the many beautiful memories are the salve that carries us through. The true pain is to have never have loved at all.