Mothering Sunday

For all the mothers who are no longer with us

 photo by Antanus Sutkus

The feelings that hurt the most, the emotions that sting most,

are those that are absurd;

the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible;

nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been;

regret over not being someone else;

dissatisfaction with the world's existence.

All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful landscape,

an eternal sunset of what we are.

Fernando Pessoa - Book of Disquiet
Photo - Mira Nedyalkova