What Is A Mother?

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    What Is A Mother?

    Mothers stay up late when
    Their kids can’t sleep..
    A mother’s affection
    Will always run deep.

    A mother silently watches
    Her child asleep in their bed.
    She looks back on her life before she
    Was a mother and her soul was dead.

    How could she have been so lucky
    To get this precious angel?
    Knowing that if anyone hurts her baby
    They are sure to be mangled.

    A mother’s heart swells with pride
    As her baby takes her first step.
    When a child says “ I love you Mommy”,"
    It was so emotional she wept.

    To know that she is a parent
    Is her greatest title.
    Hoping that her child will be
    Someone that others will idol.

    A mother caresses her child’s
    Face when she has been crying.
    A mother comforts her child
    When her grandmother is dying.

    A mother hopes she’ll be
    As great as her own mother.
    She hopes she won’t fail
    And be like the others.

    A mother protects her child when she
    Caught a tennis ball with her face.
    And beating her step-son
    Was definitely not a waste.

    A mother sneaks down a phone when
    Her child is unjustly grounded.
    A mother makes damn sure when her
    Husband insults her daughter he is fiercely pounded.

    A mother looks over her mom
    Perming her child’s hair late at night.
    She pretends she doesn’t see her
    Hiding so there won’t be a fight.

    A mother comes to her child’s aid in her
    Time of need when her own child is sick.
    A mother cries when her father dies at the
    Same time and she is forced to pick.

    Does she go home and bury her father?
    Or does she stay and comfort her child?
    The fact that she’s put in this position
    Is nothing short of wild.

    A mother lets her child and her best friend
    Plus their kids move back home.
    Living eight hours away while her grandson
    Is sick, she might as well have lived in Rome.

    A mother comes to visit her sick
    Grandson after a hard day’s work.
    A mother comforts her daughter
    When stress and chaos lurks.

    A mother loves her children
    No matter what the future holds.
    Whether it’s life or death or
    Runny noses from their colds.

    A mother loves her daughter
    In spite of all the troubles and tattoos.
    A mother loves her daughter
    In spite of their difference in views.

    A mother loves her child
    No matter what they do.
    The feeling is mutual and
    Mother, I really do love you.

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    SILKYTWEED commented on What Is A Mother?

    06-24-2009

    This is a Beautiful Write and a very deep tribute to that wonderful human spirit known thru Motherhood...Thanks for Sharing!

    mysticpoet commented on What Is A Mother?

    12-04-2008

    this poem makes me want to call my own mom and tell her i love her.

    Poetry is what is lost in translation.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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