Parental Guidance
Have you ever seen a mother?
Watch her child suffer
Requesting mercy as she kneels
Trying to understand higher power's deals
Three hours later her child comes to peace
When the child is taken and declared deceased
A strong surge can be felt in her body
Hearing the words, “you were a good mommy”
It was spirituality that came into her soul
During a time when attitudes were so cold
Have you ever seen a mother?
Watch her child suffer
Giving birth was a happy time
Cuddling the creation proclaiming, “It is mine”
But trouble soon brewed
Everything was not innocent and new
Her child was different from the others
But still she was the child’s mother
Staying vigilant was the missionary duty
Hoping the best for what she called her beauty
Have you ever seen a mother?
Tend to her child when they suffer
It brings out a loving bond
That has a quiet calm
Answers do come
And internal battles are won
Since the two are not done
Whatever the plight
Pick up this granted strength giving for the fight
And use all its might
When searching for a special light
Then in the end
The truth will defend
A mother who watched her child suffer
Asking in prayer ‘should I have another?’
Copyright © Marc O'Brien | Year Posted 2020
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