Tenor Cliff Zammit Stevens shares raw & emotional post 2 years after losing his mother
Today marks two years since Cliff Zammit Stevens lost his mother, Marcy. The local tenor shared an emotional message about his struggles with life without his mother and coming to terms with her loss on socials this morning.
“2 years of pain,” he starts off the post. “Oftentimes, life seems to be one challenge after another, leaving you wondering when you are going to catch a break or things will get easier. Life is not easy. Nothing about it is. Sometimes, I find myself trying so hard to hold on to happy moments just because I live in such fear for the next time something terribly hard is going to happen that I am going to need to overcome.”
Cliff shares that these moments are a struggle in themselves, but are even more difficult to endure without a mother. “And you know what makes these awful moments even worse? Having to live through them without my beautiful, kind, courageous, strong Mum. My Mum was always supposed to be there. She was supposed to pick me up when I fell and be the voice of reason in my ear every time I didn’t know if I was making the right choice. She was supposed to be there to fix things and make the difficult things in life easier. She was supposed to be the reason that I was never alone.”
“So having to go through these types of things without her is awful,” he admits. “In fact, the more time that goes on, the more I start to realize how much I am really missing out on by not having my mum to go through life’s struggles with me. For every roadblock and every time I am left not knowing where to turn, I find myself desperately missing and craving the love, advice and wisdom from my mum.”
“There are so many things she is missing. There are so many things that she was supposed to be here for, and she isn’t.” Cliff says that living without his mum and figuring out life without is probably the most difficult thing he’s had to endure. “The world is scary. Life is overwhelming and often times just plain HARD. Having to figure out how to move forward and conquer these terrifying things without her has 100% been the hardest thing that I have ever had to do.”
“There is no love like the love that comes from a mother and there is nobody on this earth that could take her place or fill the void of what is missing. Life is hard, but having to do it all without your Mum, is even harder.”
Since her demise, the Zammit Stevens have launched The Marcy Foundation, that focus on five pillars that are stigmatised in Maltese society: domestic violence, mental health, child abuse, drug abuse and HIV. The Marcy Foundation aims to raise awareness and help “people in seeking the help they deserve.”
Stay strong, Cliff!