An Ode: For My Mother

Dearest mother, I wish to write to thee On this motherly day of love and glee To tell you how much I appreciate The role that you’ve played in shaping my fate. For, without your patient, loving way, I would most certainly have gone astray. Yet with all your strength (and some of your genes) I successfully made it past my teens, Through those times and on to the point in life Filled with happiness, and a loving wife. A wife with a quiet and gentle strength That is right in line with your wavelength. I’ll add her to my ever-growing list Of the things I love that, through you, exist. Things which, like you, there is no just other (For, to me, you’re a most perfect mother). And so, on this day of celebration Of mothers all over god’s creation, I would just like to simply stop and say — I love you Mother; every single day.