Change of Heart
Thank you Michelle H Barnes and Kenn Nesbitt for the October prompt of writing a poem to and for your mother. I have written other poems that have my mother in them, but never this one. I guess I feel like she's been gone long enough to write it, but now I wish she'd known that I realized all she'd done for us. So, though belated, and I can't see her face as she reads this in Heaven, here it is, for You, Mom: Change of Heart I cannot imagine A stronger woman, wife, mother. I was, and still am, Determined to be like you. You were not Brought up the way most Kids were. In a tough life You grew all The more determined To survive and thrive; A different person Than those around you. I would never be abandoned; I would get no coal at Christmas - Jokes would be funny not hurtful; My questions would have answers. As a child, I could not comprehend The enormity of the difference In my life Made possible By your young heart’s decisions; But
