Heave a Happy Sigh of Pain and Pride

 

A poem for Mother’s Day to a mother whose grown-up child is about to leave home:

 

Heave a happy sigh of pain and pride,

Anticipating loneliness and freedom,

Putting plans for your new life aside,

Pausing to look back at your lost Eden.

Yes, you'll miss your child, now full grown,

Miss her terribly, as though you were

On some stark, barren inner plain alone,

The windswept stars with cold unease astir.

How poignantly you're ready to move on,

Each stage a garden time commands you leave,

Released from what you loved, your duty done.

'Tis our dearest burdens that we grieve.

So may new songs inspire you to dance,

Delighting in the gifts of circumstance,

As you pull back time's curtain to discover

Yet another garden, green as ever.

 

© by Nicholas Gordon

 

Audio and Video Music: Bittersweet. By SYBS. Music free to use at YouTube. Illustration Credit: AI.

 

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Your Love Is like the Arizona Sun

 A Mother’s Day poem from an adult child about the difficulty of expressing their love:  

 

Your love is like the Arizona sun:
Always there, no matter what I do.
Bathed in light, I feel my love for you,
But words are gone before I have begun.
I don't know why I find it hard to say
The things that rest so deeply in my heart.
It seems almost impossible to start,
As though they're too ungainly to display.
I cherish you and what you feel for me.
I'm lucky that I have you for a mom.
I love you with a love that's sweet and calm,
And vast, like some unending inner sea.
You're the one I'm with when I'm alone;
You're the place within my heart that's home.

 

© by Nicholas Gordon

 

Audio and Video Music: Heart Strings. By Coyote Hearing. Music free to use at YouTube. Photo Credit: AI

 

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