If There Were Any Words to Find Poem by Little Eagle McGowan

If there were any words to find
For what you mean to me my Mother
If there was a dollar for every time
That you loved me like no other
If there were anyone who e'er was blind
To my faults… 'twas you, small wonder!
If there's any doubt you're one of a kind
You're laughter drowns its sound like thunder.

If I could replicate just one more heart
That touched the world like yours
I'd have to pass through that celestial arch
And steal it away from Christ the Lord
But I could not tote but a little part
Of what's bigger than the ocean's roar…
So I'll simply practice your magic art
Of making keys to every other heart's door.

For who could have taught me patiently
The many truths a child must learn
Tending to me from seed to tree
In whose twigs the fire of wisdom burns
Your beauty now in my children seen
Who like me in their own turn…
Will love others bigger than the sea...
Just as you lived on your earthly sojourn.