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themute
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Maryland

0 posted 2006-07-18 03:58 PM



I saw an incredible woman today
A true mother, a good mother
With her daughter she was sitting silent
Knitting a blanket with great skill and speed
I was in aw
She looked at her disappointed daughter and said
“Why are you angry?”
“Because I don’t want to be doing this”
“Come here I want to tell you a story
A wile ago I had these teeth in the back had to be pulled out
And the doctor, because of the swelling he said I could not get all of them
I said I was miserable and I just wanted the four taken out and be done with it
But he said no and he gave me a drug I don’t know what kind of drug
But when I took it, it made me feel really good
And it made me fall asleep and I’d wake up and take the medicine again
And I told the doctor it makes me feel so great and I said it was really good
And the doctor says give me that no more for you”
“When was this?”
“Oh god a long time ago like oh gees”
“I was like 6 when this happened”
“Ok yea so like ten years ago
And so I had to go to get my citizenship test
And before I went I took like two of them
And when I got there the room was spinning
And the woman tells me to memorize these 5 things
And the room is spinning and I tell her the room is spinning
And she says no, no just memorize these 5 things
So I had to memorize these 5 things wile the whole room is spinning.”

The mother who I now adore in my memory was laughing throughout the story
She told her this story to calm her child down  
I almost cry when I think of such a mother to have
One who speaks to her child without care for all other people round
After all she don’t know me, why should she care
But she knows her daughter and loves with a heart none compare
For she is a mother a true mother
A girl once, who grew up with a mother who loved her too
And became a mother as great and as wise and more loving than the mother she had  
I don’t know if her daughter knows how good she has it
I should have told her that she’s more lucky than she knows
I should have told the mother she is an incredible person and a good person
I didn’t and perhaps for the best
She knows what she’s got
I love the memory of this mother with all of my heart
And I wished her the best life forever from afar

I am the two-toed wanderer

© Copyright 2006 Matthew Patrick Holbert - All Rights Reserved
INclan
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since 1999-07-20
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1 posted 2006-07-21 02:29 PM


For a mute, you sure have a lot to say...JUST KIDDING!  Thanks for posting.  Was this a real experience?

INclan

The Lady
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since 2005-12-26
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The Southwest
2 posted 2006-07-21 06:39 PM




"For she is a mother a true mother"

Wonderful story Matthew.

Midnitesun
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Gaia
3 posted 2006-07-21 06:46 PM


smiling here
you are such a sweeheart

themute
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since 2006-05-08
Posts 469
Maryland
4 posted 2006-07-21 06:58 PM


yea it was a real experience i was at an orthodontic surgin waiting to get a check up and there she was with her daughter. she had a way of always being calm and so nice.

I am the two-toed wanderer

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