Office Like No Other

Writer's Digest PAD Challenge day 18:For today’s prompt, write an office poem. 

Her desk is cluttered with fixings for supper

Her office, a happening place

Of telephone ringing and little child singing

While bringing a smile to her face

Her toil is a humble hierarchy
Rewarded with fridge-door art

And darling chatter, dusting, dishes and laundry

While bringing a smile to her heart

She toils, not for mere money-chasers

For her common service is such

The future depends on the fruit of her labor

And it brings a smile to her touch

Until death, she cannot relinquish

The charge of an Office so dear

That it takes a lifetime to fully accomplish

And it brings a smile to her tear

Where her office is strewn with clutter

Of noise, toys and tools of love’s care

Her title like no other, simply this; Mother

And it brings a smile to her prayer

© Janet Martin