What Gift Does My Mother Want

When she asked what to get her Mother this Christmas, Her Father said, “Life’s most expensive gift of all. A little of your time is all she wants from you. Forget buying, forgo wrapping, no boxes big or small; Give her the gift of what she misses most. Just you. If that’s too much to expect, of course it’s your call. We know it’s a busy life, as we’ve lived it ourselves.” I fear my Mother felt the same ‘til my hurry began to stall. I made it up in later years, but backfilling love into years gone by Is a task impossible to achieve, and the gap can become a wall.