A Mother's Heart

 Precious weekend with the whole family passed SO fast!

All that remains is echoes...

There are gaps

When words don’t fit as well as she had planned

Perhaps if you live long enough, my love,

You’ll understand

Then there are words

You’ve heard so often maybe you don’t know

How ‘I love you’ wrings from its sentiment

Her joy and woe

There are tears

The years flow through us quicker now it seems

And she has learned to siphon splendor

From surrendered dreams

There are smiles

The miles we have to go would be too long

Without the beauty of love’s truly

Sentimental song

Then there are times

Sometimes when intention misses the mark

While gaps and words and tears and smiles blurt out

A mother’s heart

© Janet Martin