Here's Alison: Mother's Day
Tomorrow is Mothers' Day in New Zealand, the USA and other parts of the world. In this sad poem Alison Ross thinks of disunited families, of all those mothers who will not hear from their children.
Sleep soundly Son, don’t give a thought
Today was Mothers’Day
And not a card and not a flower
Ever came my way.
Your life is full and years go by
Our time is just on loan.
I watch the post and listen for
The ringing of the phone.
The mothers all around me
Laugh and smile with joy
While I sit here and know I won’t
Get a letter from my boy.
Perhaps I’m not the mother
You’d have liked for me to be
But still I love you darling son
You mean the world to me.
Sleep soundly son your life is full
And time it passes by
And mothers everywhere must learn
There is a time to cry.
