enjoy this Linda M. Crate writing
in the free 2016 PDF file chapbook: If Tomorrow
Never Comes
(click on the front cover image or the
title text to download the free PDF file)
blessed beyond measure
Linda M. Crate
a mother is a mother
even if she never
meets her child,
and i sometimes tire of hearing
the complaints of mothers
because they don’t seem to realize
just how lucky they are
that they got a chance to hold their babies;
it seems they never once consider
women like me
who never got that chance—
it’s all about
all the running they must do, the laundry,
how many messes they have to clean,
or how their husbands never
help;
they seem to miss the entire point of their
blessing—
i’m sure some days are trying
but at least their hope for the future is there
dreaming and loving and believing by
their side
not stuck in some proverbial limbo in their mind.
