Rachael Ruyle - Single Mom

A baby cries in the middle of the night
She’s the only one to calm her screams.
Exhausted at 3 in the morning
Every night it’s the same thing.
She works two jobs just make ends meet
She wishes she had more time.
Guilt stricken for leaving her 10 hours
At the Day Care she picks her up from each night.

Every night she says to her baby holding her close as she fights sleep,
“Looking at that face it’s so hard to see
What life would be like without you next to me.
I know things are hard, just the two of us, but we’ll some how make it through.
Mommy didn’t mean for this to be so hard.
Just don’t forget I will always love you! ”

Left all alone to raise a child.
No child support to help her out.
But, money is hard to get when daddy isn’t around.
He wasn’t there to hold her hand when their baby took her first breath.
He hasn’t even seen how much she looks like him,
Before she was born he was killed by a drunk driver in an awful wreck.
She still blames herself and is mad he left her alone.
But she looks at her and sees him and knows her heart is his home.

The day came when she took her first step.
She held her close and looked in her eyes and it nearly scared her to death.
She could see her husband looking at her too.
A tear ran down her cheek and she said,
“Honey, God might have taken Daddy to Heaven but he will always be right here with you.”

Rachael Ruyle

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