Sheer Wonder of So Much Love

All-in-a-Friday-morning's-musing...

Last night at supper we were discussing something that led to someone saying

how those days back then (of Emily and Melissa living at home)

feel like a dream and suddenly I had to swallow SO hard

to keep from adding extra salt to the soup I was eating...

 Time, what a trickster; turning something totally common into love's tender trophy, even now!

Suddenly I understand the song Row, Row Your Boat a little better...esp. with this video.

As a wife and mother I’ve learned things

 I thought I was incapable of

And would be utterly impossible

 If it wasn’t for so much love

As a wife and mother I carry

A hold beneath ivory-ribbed bars

A vault tattooed and almost buried

With wave upon wave of brave salt-stars

As a wife and mother I’ve tasted

Love’s bitterest gall and sweetest joys

And I’d wonder if it was worth it

But for so many precious girls and boys

As a mother and wife I could be

So sad over so much lost

Until I remember that love always comes

With so much cost

As a wife and mother I know I’d be

A continuous, emotional mess

If it wasn’t for the sheer, dear beauty of

So much happiness

© Janet Martin