Mother's Day

We held each other
in the crumbling driveway,
my dear ones waiting 
in the idling car behind us.

You hung on for forever-
forever, wrapped in what
felt like loss, or love,
or love trapped by loss.

It was a speck but familiar,
repeated over decades
it became a Mother's love
and her heartache too.

She has bridled well 
these warriors of pain and grace
but she can take care now 
as I invite them to melt in to my arm.

She pulls me closer,
which is telling and brave.
Thank you for the proximity, I whisper
thank you for your molding grace

Thank you for this speck,
the moment confers a license to feel.
I turn to the beauty in the idling car
resolved to hold them forever too.