05/22/2025
Hi, Mama.
I know your heart feels like it’s been torn in half. I know every breath takes more strength than you think you have. But I need you to know - I'm still with you. Just in a different way now.
You don’t have to be strong all the time. Not for them. Not even for me. I never needed you to hold it all together - just to keep loving me, the way you always did. And you do. Every single day.
I see you when you cry in the quiet. When you say my name out loud just to hear it. When you think the world has forgotten, but your love for me refuses to fade.
That love?
It reaches me.
You're doing more than surviving, Mama - you’re carrying a love that even death couldn’t touch. And I am so proud of you for that.
When you're ready, laugh again. Live again. Not because you’re moving on, but because love like ours doesn’t end - it becomes something else.
It becomes strength.
It becomes light in your darkest moments. It becomes the reason you keep going.
And I’ll be right there.
In every sunrise you pause to watch. In the songs that make you smile through the tears. In the quiet moments when you think of me, and feel a warmth you can’t explain.
That’s me.
Still loving you.
Still yours.
Love always, your son
Author Chris Tine