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I love you Mom

 

My healthy arm will be your stay; And I will smooth your pain
away; And when I see you hang your head; It will be my turn
to watch your bed;  And tears of sweet affection shed. "

                               Quote - from Ann Taylor's poem, My Mother


I will turn back the pages of sorrow,
to the sad May day my mother left me;
the details recalled each 'morn and 'morrow,
as her breath became gasps-   I did not flee.
Then, stood by her coffin screaming inside,
tears falling, whispering- oh, why God why;
she had left me on Mother's Day that year, 
to her cold headstone my thoughts often glide;
I set her free-   so up, up she could fly, 
turn off life support . . .  I said with a tear !

Mother was my very best friend always,
loved her garden and country adventures;
mom, so calm even when roads were a maze,
so we would stop the car to take pictures.
Our home had a huge vast sunny garden,
since a child I helped mom with the flowers;
those days are some of my best memories,
nesting close by we had a Blue Martin;
we could linger there for - hours, hours and hours,
Mother's day . . . will be lost in reveries !

I never met a more joyful kind soul,
my sweet mom embraced every single day;
to others she had so much self-control,
mother was happy and gay everyday.
She made each birthday a celebration,
each Christmas Day . . . gifts, family and food;
I was mothers decoration helper,
think that I was often her frustration;
always to my poetry she was glued,
my mom was my rock, true north and shelter !

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Valsa George Date: 5/13/2024 7:03:00 PM What beautiful memoirs of your mother. Every child who has lost a loving mother can relate to this. I am glad to find that my mother too had some similarities with your mom. My mother's two interests were cooking and gardening. It particularly pained me that your mom left you on Mother's Day. A touching tribute. Login to Reply Constance La France Date: 5/19/2024 5:25:00 PM Valsa, thank you for the lovely comment and compliment, hugs

Suzette Richards Date: 5/12/2024 6:50:00 AM This is a very moving tribute, Constance. Your love and devotion shines through your poem. Login to Reply Constance La France Date: 5/12/2024 3:29:00 PM Suzette, thank you for the compliment and comment, appreciate, hugs