Her Life Of Yesterday

Her wrinkled hands are swollen,
From the years of love and care,
Her eyes are darkly circled
From too many years of shedding tears.
Her body is now frail and weakened,
From all the sleepless nights she’s had,
Her heart once too often broken,
in her world now bleak and sad.

The times once filled with laughter,
Are now just lonely quiet days,
The visions she dreamed of fulfilling,
Are now just a vacant, starry gaze.
The kids that used to came to visit,
Have all left and moved away,
As she sits alone, close by the window,
Crying for her time of yesterdays.

She stares at the walls surrounding her,
A few pictures from her life,
That special day that she was wed,
And became a happy, loving wife,
All too soon he had to leave her too,
 For God chose to call him home.
Now that her loving children moved away
She feels that life has left her so alone.

There was a time not long ago,
She rocked each in her arms,
She kept them fed and happy,
Sharing with them all her charms.
A symbol of a true devoted Mother,
Making sure for them she’d always care.
She did without herself for years,
Hid from them each painful tear.

Oh they don’t know she heard them talking,
They thought she couldn’t understand,
But she’d be there Mom forever,
 There love now was in demand.
They think she is just a stranger,
That she’s forgotten them today,
But a Mother’s love lasts forever,
Through each and everyday.