Mother Mine

A poem for the woman who gave me life

Mother Mine

When the world did not know me

Loved was I

Safe within the vessel of thee,

Oh Mother Mine.

 

When first I knew the world,

It began in your eyes.

When first I learned to love

It began in your heart

When first I knew fear

It was soothed in your arms

You are my beginning

Oh Mother mine

 

A shadow you are behind me

Casting a warning of all that you have known

A light you are before me

Shining with the dreams you’ve carried

A stone you remain beside me

Strength from which I borrow when the Now is too much

All of these things and more you are

Oh Mother mine

 

Be there a greater hero

Then she who gives of her being to new life?

Selflessness defines you

Oh Mother mine

 

And who am I?

She who has shared with you all that might be had

Who finds shade in your shadow,

Inspiration in your light,

And strength in your presence?

I am but a promise you made to Tomorrow;

An extension that might live

To give a little more,

Go a little further

I am she who loves you more than any other

I am forever

Daughter yours.