Fay Slimm.

Mothering

 

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