I will become the love I didn’t receive

I will become the love I didn’t receive… not as a child, because I did feel it then, but as a man. Everything changed when I came out at 19. I’m from Portugal, I’ve been in London for six years now, and if I don’t call my mother, she doesn’t call me. I know I’m her son… but she’s still my mother, and sometimes, all a son needs is to hear “Are you okay?” that silence hurts more than anything… You learn to live with it…you grow around the pain, you become stronger, kinder… better, but the truth remains: every man needs his mother… Thank you

- Anonymous