Apron Strings
          -tied snuggly ‘round
            a belly full with child
          -Mother smiling 

Apron Strings
          -firmly tied with a double bow
            child holding tightly
          -trailing her mother’s footsteps 

Apron Strings
          -Loosely tied,
            with a half-knot thrown haphazardly
            ‘round a trim and youthful waist
          -Standing there beside a mother
            whose waist is similarly dressed 

Apron Strings (her mother's)
          -Hanging down...
            near the college student’s sides
          -In her hand is clutched a phone
            as she talks to her mother

Apron Strings
          -Worn and threadbare
            flapping in the wind
          -Mother and daughter,
              rocking on the porch 

The strings which bind us
          to each other
get stretched and pulled
          with years
and are watered
          with our tears 

But those strings create a fabric
          stronger than those tears,
and in the end
          those strings are that
which pull us
          through the years.