To My Mother

Your beauty and strength
     glisten - 


     there 


     mine



Your mother, your mother's mother, your mother's mother's mother........


     i'm listening


You never once said, "One day you'll see." 
     
     if only my eyes would never shut


     mean


     me


Your gazing upon her my gazing upon you gazing


     joy


What can be said of a woman who gives all and loves all


     me
     mine
     mimi

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