Mother's Day Sentiment

What is Mother without
Her house and child?
Babies are born
and grown in her domicile.
Many houses she has known,
Many seeds she has sown,
Where she settled, made it her own ...

As years gather number
Some ideals are put to rest
Children now with children
Are wiser, but never, at best, alone
for Mother journeys with them
Seeing always bright little faces
... Hearing falsetto voices
in a din ... full of trust and whim.



Patrick Darnell