Mother's Day Monolog With Defiance And Deference

________________________________________________________________________________________________

Today is Mother's Day

A plenitude of pastors

will proclaim

Thank God for your Mother

This morning,

A sometimes solitary me 

will exclaim
(with my inner voice)

Let God thank me

(The beauty of that inner voice)
(is that I am the only one)
(who can hear it)

My Mother was with me

for barely twenty years

My Mother has been with God

for nearly fifty years

But I forgive God

for taking the Grace

out of my life

Grace Oliverio

(1921-1971)

There is no length long enough
to measure my love for you 

________________________________________________________________________________________________