Sitting beside you
Here in ER
Feeling your hand in mine
Softly I whisper
“Mommy is here”
How could she have been so blind?
You once played karate
Now you do not
You stay in a wheelchair
And cry

So now you’re being held
In mother’s arms
You couldn’t run
On that dreadful day
So here you are
In mother’s arms
No one is the same
And the neighbor’s to blame
Mother’s arms

Living without fun
Living in pain
The world seems so cold
Wanting your healing
Wanting you here
How much we wanted you home

But now that the neighbor
Has gone to jail
She’ll regret that day