Written as a message to a child she is no longer with, this is a mother's attempt to reach across a painful distance. The speaker keeps circling the same worries: what her child would think of her, how they are feeling, whether they are managing at school without her help. Underneath those small questions sits a larger one she can't avoid.
She remembers carrying the child for nine months and comforting them through bad dreams, and those memories are tender. But the poem also carries guilt. "Life was taking from me that day I left you" suggests she feels both forced and responsible, and later she says no words can "take back what I took from you." The apology "will spill over and over," as if she can't stop making it.
The mood is raw, hopeful, and anxious at once. "I will wait for you, / You will come" sounds like a promise she needs to believe. The poem ends in capital letters, "DO YOU??", a plain, desperate plea for reassurance.