Feeling Like Mother
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Here is a picture of me with my mom, who is very young for her 84 years! This was taken just last week the day after my surgery. She came all the way from Iowa on the Amtrak train to be with me and I take her home very early in the morning to go back to Iowa July 21. On the right side of the picture is my lovely daugher and her three children are with us. We are four generations of oldest daughters represented in this photo as well! (Incidentally, my daughter is very tall, almost 6 feet. I am medium size and height, and my mom is very petite. Thus my reference to her as a little girl in my poem.)
I open the door
to one of our guest bedrooms
and find her nearly asleep . . .
she who long ago
tucked me into bed each night
when I was such a small child.
Tonight it is I
who lean down to kiss the face
of a precious little girl.
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2016
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