Mothering.
From childhood\'s
pig-tailed time of fun
I hear again those
girl-voiced summers
when rush begun
to win more growth
toward freedom
brought understood
concern from
a parenting mother
whose love
gave firm reasons
for slowing
my aim to be gone
because home
and her secure love
would not be
there to give caring
food forever.
How true this as I muse
on Mothering Sunday