A Love Song for my Mother

Dear Mom,

Thank you for feeding me
    love
    stories
    and even tofu
it will make a great scene in a novel someday.

Thank you for being a model of what a loving relationship looks like
    for being open and honest and listening without judging
    for welcoming my friends into our home.
You were and still are the “cool” mom.

You taught me
    that it's okay for moms to have their own dreams
    that it's never too late to seek dreams
    that it's hard and it's scary
And it's worth every minute of it all.

Without you, I never would have even considered
    that writers are grown
    not born
and that I could become one, too.

Because of your love and support I became
    a teacher
    a skater
    a mother
    an author
and that is only the start of my journey.

Forget Shakespeare
    one hundred and fifty-four sonnets
    couldn't begin
to describe what you mean to me.

You are
    my thing with feathers
    my dream keeper
    you showed me the road less traveled and that has made all the difference

Even Dickinson, Hughes, and Frost aren't enough.
No poet in the world has enough words to sing my love song for you.

Happy Mother's Day.

Love, Katie

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