For My Boys Lofgren Syndrome Did Not Win The stairs stood tall, a silent wall, but love refused to let me fall. My legs were weak, my body sore, yet my heart cried out—I need more. Above me, voices, soft and sweet, my babies waking, shuffling feet. Yet I lay trapped, a world apart, with aching arms but a mother’s heart. So up I rose, before first light, before the world could doubt my fight. With nothing but my hands and will, I pulled, I climbed, I pushed uphill. One step, then two, then gasping air, the burn, the strain, the whispered prayer. Not for myself, but for their need— to have their mom, to feel her lead. And when I reached their room at last, my pain, my fear—they fell, they passed. Their sleepy morning voices, their morning hugs, made every tear worth it all. For love I disobey what bodies say, it lifts, it fights, it finds a way. And when the world said, stay behind, I rose, I climbed, I did it. -Ashley McCombs Mizell Blindmomofboys
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