Like Your Mother Poem by Suzanne Hayasaki

Love like your mother.
Take in strays.
Find ways
To comfort others.

Focus outwards.
Cherish life
In all its forms
Through all its cycles.

Find strength in kindness
In service
In sacrifice.
Let that lift you above your suffering.

Then every day
Spent in pleasure
Or filled with pain
Will be heavy with love.

Like a stained glass window,
Life is fragments of glass,
Sand fired and dyed,
Random shards soldered together
In an awesome display of divine design.

We are like polar bears stranded on one piece
Wondering why ours red and not green
Not seeing the pattern floating in the endless sea.
Hopeless, bereft, unaware of our destiny.

But sometimes I catch glimpses.
I have dreams; I have visions,
Never clear, never lasting
But real and sustaining.

Sometimes another facet comes into focus.
Sometimes another layer becomes exposed.
Sometimes a new dimension beckons,
And I awake filled with hope.

I carry a lamp for your mother.
I hold it high as she rises.
I catch her eye and she smiles.
She is as beautiful as you.