Sunday

Happy Mother's Day

My dishes went unwashed today.
I didn’t make my bed.
I took his hand and followed
where his eager footsteps led.


Oh yes, we went adventuring
My little child and I.
Exploring all the great outdoors,
Beneath the sun and sky.

We watched the robin feed her young.
We climbed a sunlit hill.
Saw cloud-sheep scamper through the sky,
We plucked a daffodil.

That my house was so neglected,
That I didn’t brush the stairs,
In twenty years no one on earth
Will know or even care.

But that I helped my little child
To noble adulthood grow,
In twenty years the whole wide world
May look and see and know.