I came to know a kinswoman recently.
Someone who spoke my words and used my tongue,
who saw my heart and called it her own.
We shared our deepest pains and ugliest thoughts.
We told no lies and spread out all our truths.
We wailed, we screamed, we swore, we wept and we never turned away.
She had been there, done that, said yes too many times, no never enough,
stayed when she should have run and left when she should have stayed.
She yearned for more when she had plenty and given up when she’d almost won.
She was wrong and she was right, she knew nothing and she knew enough.
She questioned herself and turned in to the dark.
She saw the light but didn’t believe it’s glow.
She let herself be played when she forgot the rules of the game.
She put her love in all the wrong places, not giving it to herself first.
She expected more but often settled for less.
She learned her lessons the hard way and often repeated mistakes.
I came to know a kinswoman recently and she is my greatest strength.
“A body can’t do everything,” frets Grandma.
Hannah instantly joins kinswoman, laying
monogrammed napkins, opening peas quickly.
Reluctantlyly stopping, turns unto visitors.
“Who xrates young zucchini?”
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R ashly he didn’t stop
A t the railroad crossing
I t is known that he was seen
L ots of liquor tossing.
R oaring train just couldn’t stop.
O nward it sped ahead.
A t the crossing a big crash!
D rinking dude is dead!
C rying relatives bemoan
R ashness of young Moses.
O n his casket they have lain
S ome red and yellow roses.
S igns and signals cannot stop
I nattentive losers
N o words of wisdom enough for
G uys who are driving boozers.
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Cheerful Carolyn carries coffee
in capacious cups from coffee shop.
Whiny Willie wails for water.
Susan snappishly shouts , “Stop”.
Mother made more memories daily
Onto our own needs orbited
Thank you for funny forwarded times
Thank you when watchful waking moments
Thank you passive persistent perinatal attention
Thank you tireless tiptoeing tyrant of love
Thank you sovereign solely still life of memories
Thank you rare reactive retreating
Thank you viewing victorian kingdom
Thank you kingdom kindness of kinswoman
Thank you loving luring love
Thank you best befriended borne
Love is luring luscious and luxuriant
Needs are never neglected and normal
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