A Poem For My Mother
Images flash across the night sky
Full of love and emotion
Spanning three decades
From a mother to her daughter
Your gentle touch piecing together
Strands to make braids
Securing plastic bunnies in place
The romantic sounds of a distant language
Rolling r’s, the tongue soft against lips
Comfort in singing songs of gaviotas
The hum of your red beetle against
The soft rock on the radio we didn’t dare touch
The pink flurry of tutus, wet bathing suits
Driving down road after countless road
Your love is an unending orbit
Unbroken, unwavering and unrelenting
As warm as the rays of the sun
Beaming in your wedding dress
Your arm linked in mine
Forever by my side
My mother you’ll be
