TheBanyanTree: Ode To Mother

[smack58 at nycap.rr.com]

Thank you!

It kind of went along with Monique's "inspiration" piece.  My mother has always inspired me to write...she was a beautiful lady and I miss her terribly.

Sharon


---- Julie Anna Teague <jateague at indiana.edu> wrote: 
That is just absolutely beautiful.  Thanks so much for sharing it.
Julie


Quoting smack58 at nycap.rr.com:

> Today on the anniversary of my mother's death I wrote this poem:
>
> Ode To Mother
>
> MOTHER
>
> There was a point
> Between my mother and me
> When I let go
> The tether that bound us
> Child to mother
> And became a counterpoint
> Separate
> A sounding board
> A friend
> A trustee of her womanhood
> Of her tragedy
>
>
> When I listened
> And absorbed her persona
> When I finally understood
> That she existed
> Beyond her husband
> Beyond her children
> That she existed
> Alone
> And unto herself
>
>
> I slid away those days
> And nights
> And left the childish me?s behind
> A metamorphosis came about
> Into a fellow human being
> With a compassion
> An empathy
> A sympathy
> That allowed me to
> Be absorbed
> Into her very essence
>
>
> Somehow we were one
> In those long night hours
> In which we talked
> One!
> I knew
> I felt
> I entered into her feelings
> Her sensations
> Her loves
> Her hopes
> Her dreams
> Her fears
>
>
> Her horror at a war
> She had never fully understood.
>
>
> In those night hours
> I became my mother
> My mother
> Became me
> We wore each others? clothes of life
> And I knew
> For the rest of mine
> I would always understand her
> And she, me
>
>
> Not the understanding
> Of everyday living
> Or acts of the mundane
> No!
> It was the understanding
> Of who we were in our souls
> Who we were as individuals
> Separate from one another
> Separate
> But one?
>
>