Happy Mother's Day to a Dear Aunt
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Copyright by
Nicholas
Gordon
Happy Mother's Day to a dear
aunt,
A refuge from conditions and
demands,
Perhaps because you have a different
slant,
Perhaps because your love is free of
plans.
Yet for whatever reason, you are
there
More simply and directly than the
other,
One with whom a child can always
share
The kinds of joys too carefree for a
mother.
Happiness can use a bit of room,
Even
in the midst of an embrace.
Relevance requires not the
womb:
'Tis love and labor that replenish
grace.
So do you play this secondary
part,
Dealt not by birth but by the willing
heart,
Aunt extraordinaire, whose love will
bring
Years of memories that dance and sing.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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