Mumma's Poem

Whenever you need a break from life

From school or work or friends,

There’s a figure that everyone thinks of at first,

To get away from life’s confusing bends.

The person who will always love you,

Never stopping and never will,

The person who remembers all your favorite things,

Or feeds you soup when you are ill.

The characters in movies,

Shout MOMMY! when they are scared,

They do this because they know,

That their mother will always be there.

I don’t want to sound cliche,

Or repeat others before me,

So I’ll try to speak from my heart,

As my mother has always taught me to be.

It’s true, I get mad sometimes

At the things my mother says

And sometimes I want to lock myself in my room

So I won’t have to see her again.

But when I do this, I do it

As a way of fleeing from the facts

Because I become blind

To what my mother has taught me in the past.

Pushing problems farther

Only make them tougher to conquer,

And only when you face them,

Is when you start to ponder,

The reality of your problems,

And why you are scared of them,

And one by one, you find you can

Finally uproot them by the stem.

But this is all done with someone you know you can trust,

The one who shares her every with you,

Who aspires for you to have the best life you possibly can,

Who else would it be? Your mother, who will love you through and through.