A Poem For Mama

I wrote this poem about two months ago...in honor of the Mother's Day celebration yesterday, figured I would share again...

You were everywhere you should have been over the years

Though we’ve shed so many tears, been frightened by our biggest fears

But oh what a bond we share, and although the burdens of single motherhood was way more than you could bare

I’d say you conquered the quest pretty fair, and did the absolute best you could when there was no one else to care

How you’d provide for a child all alone, no directions, no assistance, only rejections and resistance

Your love was your persistence that kept you grounded to fight

Even when all resources vanished, and promised help was a mere invisible sight that never existed

Still you insisted no matter how much resisted to press forward with the strength of a steel shield

You’d kill whatever appeared to compromise my well being or diminished my appeal

To feel the burn igniting inside you was surreal, just thinking about your sacrifice makes my heart beat still

Silence….

Indescribable, that’s a mother’s love, more pure than the skin on the most immaculate dove

Up above is from whence your only help came, and the pain that was incurred by those that were so insane to leave you stranded and abandoned you disdained

So utterly confused as to why your plight had headed this direction

The complications that arose gave an incredible, intensified rise in perplexion causing infections of your peace of mind and permanently altered states of your complexion

Depression brought on recurring internal recessions incorporated with incessions of spiritual demons attacking  your soul for eternal reasons

Continuous seasons of this massive warfare, hurtful lessons of reality whipping on you as deadly weapons, then eventually gripping sections of the multiple dragons eventually destroyed by way of confessions, redemption, and prayer

What a joyful feeling it must have been to finally stand on the other side, and know that through all the pain and suffering your sacrificial efforts didn’t go in vain

And those decisions you made that drew incisions in your heart finally healed

And if you’ve ever questioned how I feel, or if I understood how real the love you so magically and colorfully illustrated

Understand if there was never a time I’ve demonstrated my appreciation for what you’ve done and continue to do

Please know that from your heart to mine and back to yours, I love you, I understood, and there will never be another you

Through all the drama, and all the love, most angelic and dearest Mama