Hidden

She begged for one good Day so that she can survive this night. There was not much of sanity left in her. From the outside it all looked like she is in control of everything. It looked like her mother's illness was managable. No one knew about the fragile sleep partially listening  for odd noises since her mother might have tried walking and had fallen. No one knew about countless emergency calls she had made and the deeply hidden relief when she knew that her mother would stay in the hospital for a week or two. And of course no one knew about lack of will power and energy to do something around the house.