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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.

Copyright © Randall Donahoo | Year Posted 2022