MOTHER

Sometimes I can still hear the sounds of song
waking me from lazy summer dreams
and calling me to a day filled with sunshine
and the promise of your loving smile

Sometimes I can still feel the wrap of your arms
drawing me into the safety of your embrace
the feel of a Mother's love tender in your hug
and the promise of your beautiful face

Sometimes I can still see the light in your eyes
as you watched me grow
and the pride and the joy and the pain
as your little girl became lost to you,
a woman in her place

Sometimes I can see the tremble of your tears
the sorrow that I caused, the trials that I gave
your worries over me and what I should become
and the promise of your faith

Sometimes I remember the adventures we had
driving off to far away lands
walking and talking and becoming the best of friends
as we grew beyond the bonds of fate

Always I will hold you close in my love for you
for even though you are gone and lost to me
you are the very essence of what's good in me
and the promise of what it is to be . . .
a Mother

S.A.T.