An Ode to my Mother

Sometimes I view you as cruel,

Sometimes I think you can be awfully

Cold and harsh and Sometimes

Oh that mikki smile

Just so warms my heart;

Despite the few grievances

I don't love anyone as much as you;

You are strength personified,

You are courage

And do you really smell

As good as you do?

Your nose deserves many kisses,

Your lips must always smile

And your eyes must always

Soften with glimmer

And that mother love you define;

In you I find the whole universe,

It's sins and all God's virtues

You are, you mean the world to me

And please forgive me

And unburden me from the past;

I will transform my perceptions

With the knife of life that you wield 

And I will cut all dilemmas between us

Because it's your heart I wish to hold.

Seeking your forgiveness

And trying to forgive you for some hurts

Has often made me pay penance

And atone for all the sins of the world;

Your vast heart I have inherited, 

Your broadness of mind is mine

And today when you meet me

I hope to sit with you

To treasure a bond so refined;

I am different from you dear mother

And you just might see it that way

On my own path, with my own strummings, 

With experiences you are not privy,

I hold many stories

That I haven't told you

And they are not secrets from your mind

And if I forge one step

Or leap across the world

It's always with you in my mind;

I will heal oh dear mother

And you are not really to blame

Because you have taught me

That in being human

Sometimes, just sometimes we fail;

And that's the greatest lesson you've taught me,

Something that has carved my life

That to err is human, to forgive divine

And that is what has opened my heart and mind.

Today I release you of all expectations,

I release you from desires I had of you,

And I free your soul from trying to be perfect,

And in that I also free my soul.