5 Minutes

Tonight
I devote
My five minutes
To you

As the rain
Works
To wash away
The memory

Fervently
It falls
As though
Fleeing
Certain doom

And my senses
Recalibrate
After being lost
Amid the gentle rainfall
Spoken word
And gentle kisses

Lucky for me
Five minutes is up

Happy Mother's Day!

The sun

To their earth

The moon

To their stars

For a precious time

We are

The biggest 

And most important 

Person

To them

As they

Are

To us

To grow

Their tiny,

Fragile bodies

To birth

These precious babes

To watch

As they learn to do

Everything

We take for granted 

Lift their head

Recognize your face

Grasp an object

Learn to speak

Both slowly 

And at the speed of light

Their hand

Stops reaching for yours

When you walk together

Their frame

Outgrows your lap

And your legs grow numb 

When they try it anyway

Their minds work

In ways

Increasingly difficult 

To understand 

Their vocabulary 

Becomes a code to crack

And they look to their peers

As often 

As they look to you

(Or more)

Trust

And letting go

Battle suspicion 

And the desire

To hold them close

And off

They go

We watch now

From a distance 

And trust

In our own hearts

And wait for signs 

That we did

At least a few

Things

Right

I hope 

Trying to raise

My three children

As well as my Mom

Raised her three

Is a good enough sign

For her

Happy Mother's Day!