This is my post for Kellie’s Free Write Friday prompt. Please check out all the others that contribute, they are worth the time for sure….
http://kellieelmore.com/2013/05/10/fwf-free-write-friday-m-is-for-mom/
How much time have you spent in life
Wondering what your future would be
Any time at all is more than you’d have
If your Mom hadn’t desired your face to see.
Mother, Mom or even Mama to start
We are safe in the crook of her arm
A grizzly bear has nothing on this one
If someone tries the little one to harm.
For most those arms guide us straight
Giving all the care we need until grown
Then we pay back all those years she gave
Remembering as we raise families of our own.
Life isn’t always as kind as we’d like
Some are taken too soon, young or old
So cherish all those moments, let it be known
Honor her for her love; her take time now to hold.
While it should never come down to one day a year
Take this special day to make sure all can see
That your Mother is worth all the time that she spent
And that without her, standing here, you would not be.
Gray Poet 
I really miss my Mom and Al today at the nursing home was agitated. The truth came out when he told me it was almost Mother’s Day and her birthday is next week also. He has always had a big void without her
Wish I could make your day better… 😦
Gray … what a beautiful tribute to mother’s everywhere!
Thank you Annie, I have missed your words
We should all praise our mothers more, well done here…
Thank you
Great tribute to Mama my dear friend; well written and from the heart
i miss my mother terribly but i appreciated her while she was with me, she is irreplaceable! this is beautiful work, a lovely tribute!
I’m grateful if I created a moment of thought. I appreciate to comment.
Beautifully stated!
Thank you Mark.
I really needed to read this one as I actually had an argument with my mom yesterday and we parted ways in anger. 😦
Thank you for the reminder…I will be calling her.
Absolutely beautiful and true. I get to spend the next couple of days with my mom! I’m a blessed man!
Beautiful tribute to moms everywhere, with a reminder to cherish those people we love.
Brilliant poem, great rhythm and sentiment – loved the ending
Take this special day to make sure all can see
That your Mother is worth all the time that she spent
And that without her, standing here you would not be.
I’m in awe of how you can so beautifully express things that most, if not all, of us feel, but can’t articulate it as well as you. Well done. Thanks for sharing with us.
This poem speaks to me, more than I can say. I try to spend as much time as I can with my Mom.
It is a nice poem – I like it and wish I had a mother like that. Thanks for sharing
My contribution is here
Have a great week and hope to see you again next Friday 😀
Simply lovely, heart felt. I am a mother and a daughter. I’m glad I found you through Kellie Elmore. I will be reading your other posts as well. I’m a Gray Poet believer! Laurie of hibernationnow.wordpress.com. Nice to meet you.
Thank you so much for your words, they always make me feel good to feel my heart was felt. I hope you find other posts that touch.