Mother

"Youth fades, love droops,

the leaves of friendship fall;

a mother's secret hope outlives them all."

"A mother's hardest to forgive.

Life is the fruit she longs to hand you,

Ripe on a plate.

And while you live,

Relentlessly she understands you."

"There never was a child so lovely

but his mother was glad to get him asleep."

"Grown don't mean nothing to a mother.

A child is a child.

They get bigger,older, but grown.

In my heart it don't mean a thing."

"Most of all

the other beautiful things in life

come by twos and threes

by dozens and hundreds.

Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows,

brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins,

but only one mother in the whole world."

"A mother's arms are made of tenderness

and children sleep soundly in them."

"Children are the sum

of what mothers contribute to their lives."

"The hand that rocks the cradle

is the hand that rules the world."

"A mother is the truest friend we have,

when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us

when adversity takes the place of prosperity

when friends whore joice with us in our sunshine,

desert us when troubles thicken around us,

still will she cling to us,

and endeavor by her kind precepts

and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness,

and cause peace to return to ourhearts."