Motherhood

 She was only gone for a week to help at a kid's summer camp but it felt a lot longer for mother...

Life feels 'right-er' with her here:)

 Oh! The constant bitter-sweet surprises of motherhood...

It wakes heart-    tender splendor

As it aches and breaks and heals and reels with

Breathless grandeur of a love that wounds and heals

It burns with yearning fervor as it earns its seal of scars

As it learns that tears and laughter turn to years 

Scattered like shattered stars; it surrenders vain

  Ambition for the gain of girl or boy

Love lifts a heart-shaped

Cup that over-

 Flows with

Sorrow-

Joy

© Janet Martin