A Poem For My Mum (Kathleen Capper) Poem by Natasha Edwards

You held me in your arms
What feels like a million times!
Like a lioness you love me
Brave and never tiring
You catch when I fall
Even 30 years on from my first step
Your smile is lovingly engraved in my mind
Like the striking sunset on a backdropp of the sea
If I die before you mum
Like others have sadly done
Know that our love was special
And will never be undone
You’re my inspiration and
Although it’s been said before
The wind beneath my wings
While you stand
Watching on the sidelines of my life
I love you deep like an unkempt wild ravine
Looking back over my shoulder
I see your smiling face
Reassuring me
Forever and always
That our love is special
Like no other parent and child has
And if I leave this world mum before you or dad
Know my childhood was the best
Better than the majority had
I mess up loads
Each and every day
But knowing you will love me relentless
Helps me on my way
We have the hope for a future
A hope that is bright and pure
Where God will take this sadness
And where we will feel our pains no more
A place where we will be reunited
With innocence and our loved ones passed
You gave me life twice over
When you gave the gift of Jehovah to me
And now
Although we cry for our children together
One day are burdens will be set free
Until that day where
We stand side by side
Watching our children rise
Hold me in your arms mum
And never let me go