Poem of the Week: You Took Us In and Loved Us as Your Own

Thursday, May 9, 2019

May 10, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on May 12.

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A Mother’s Day poem to a woman who raised someone else’s children:

You took us in and loved us as your own

Though you were old enough to need some rest.

Now you are eighty and alone,

Rattling on within your empty nest.

Though we no longer live within your doors,

You will always live within our hearts.

I think of you, and that sweet thought restores

My happiness, as my own Red Sea parts.

This you've done for me, more than the toil,

The prostrate nights, the scarce funds spent, the pain:

Your love and selflessness have been the soil

In which my life can always bloom again.

I cannot think what I would do or be

Without the love that you have given me.

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day