Saving Noah

by Lucinda Berry

He stared into space, wrestling with his demons.

Nobody should have to die alone.

But I had to go on for Katie, because being a mother means you live your life as a living sacrifice.

Being his parent didn’t stop after he died, and it was my job as his mother to protect his memory in the same way I protected him while he was alive.

There had to be a God, because there had to be a heaven. A time when I got to see him again, and he was the one to walk me home.