The Will to Live

Cherry pondered on the meaning of the song, and her tears just didn't stop falling. If mothers are angels, then how could her mom betray her? Of all the many people, why did it have to be her? Only now did it occur to her that the most profound reason for her stubbornness was the humiliation that it was her very own mother who inflicted that most painful wound within her soul. A wound too difficult to treat because it existed in her mind.

 Yet, if she looked back to her childhood days, she could neither deny the memories of her love and protectiveness.  She could see herself very well in this little girl before her, whose heart swelled with gratitude towards her mother.