Thank Mother

Whether or not you were there it would have been the same;

        you would have cast no shadow, you would have had no name;

                                                  if not for her,

                                             your own mother,

           from whose own life-sustaining, love-giving womb you came.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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