Midweek Pick Me Up

My favorite poet of all time is Carol Lynn Pearson. Her poetry is generally short, to-the-point, and full of meaning. I simply adore everything she has written. This poem is called "Mother to Child."

Look -
Your little fist
Fits mine
Like the pit
In a plum.

I think,
In the time
Before remembering,
These two hands
Clasped companionably,
Then parted.

Help me, child.
Forgive me
When I fail you.
I'm your mother,
True,
But in the end
Merely an older equal
Doing her faltering best
For a dear
Small friend.

Midweek Pick Me Up

http://laugh-learn-love.blogspot.com/2008/08/midweek-pick-me-up_13.html