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Saturday,May 9 2009, 07:02:02 PMMother's Day

A Sonnet for My Incomparable Mother

 

 

I often contemplate my childhood, Mom.
I am a mother now, and so I know
Hard work is mixed together with the fun;
You learned that when you raised me long ago.

 

 

I think of all the things you gave to me:
Sacrifice, devotion, love and tears,
Your heart, your mind, your energy and soul--
All these you spent on me throughout the years.

 

 

You loved me with a never-failing love
You gave me strength and sweet security,
And then you did the hardest thing of all:
You let me separate and set me free.

 

 

Every day, I try my best to be
A mother like the mom you were to me.

 

 

By Joanna Fuchs

 


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