Mother to Daughter to Mother

There are no words

To say what you mean to me

There are no vowels

That can adequately make the sound

No syllable can ever speak

The pain and joy

That in you, I have found.

I look at you

With your own babe

And I know in my heart

You’ll never be able to believe

You could hurt her somehow

Or drive her away

Leaving you to greatly grieve.

The problem is

You never imagine a plan

For anything but good

Between your two loving souls.

When things get messed up and

Your bewildered mind spins

While your heart’s blood emotionally flows.

It happened to us

I’ve prayed as hard as I could

That it never will

Happen to you and your child

But just in case one day it should

Consider this a lesson plan

Offered in hope that your misery’s mild.

Kathy Adams