Mother to Mother

Tis a universal bond

We share with each other

A non-scripted empathy

Mother to mother

This bond is tempered

With blood, prayer and tears

It threads across oceans

And borders and years

It clutches our pulses

We know each other

Through the beautiful angst

Of being a mother

Mutual devotion

Bent on love’s greater good

As we share the bond

Of motherhood

Tis a common bond

We understand each other

In a universal kinship

Mother to mother

© Janet Martin