The Child Within

You spend all your life trying to gain more independance, trying to grow up, trying to let go. But what happens when your world comes crashing down and you're forced to go back to where you fled from? Only to see the ones you loved suffer? Do we ever grow up for our parents? Or is there always a child within craving for unconditional love, and the warm loving embrace of one's mother?

An entry in the story writing competition--"Snapshot in time"