My Mother

Caring love cold as a shower, never before and never after, shall one as you love me again. You cradle me at youth, protect me as I mature, scold me in contempt and yet… …always in love Was not for you… I would not care, was not for you… I would not live, was not for you… I would not love. Hold me as I go into the world, do not protect me… only guide me, for I am man and woman’s child, bold and foolish… …yet as always it shall be – unknowing. Forsake me not… for with me pride was born, good and evil I can do…that all mankind can do, but that what I’ve been taught not all mankind can do – care!!