'Mom ...'

The word "Mom" is so powerful.

By itself. Not "my mom ..." or "my mother..."

Just "Mom."

There's so much at stake when you say that single word, then wait for the response.

I don't say it much -- but when I do, I feel an overwhelming rush.

Just that one, elemental word suspends everything.

I don't think of what I probably will feel.

In that silence in between is a gulf.

That silence is holy.