Mother Poem by William F Glennon

It has been 30 yrs and incessantly the pain is there.
Sitting in the county hospital lounge that day without a care.
You wonder what could have been and why life isn't fair.

The blank stares of nurses doing what they could.
Wondering why fortunes never favored blood in my childhood.

The time we spent together on this earth was short and sweet.
When I leave this earth, I will not be afraid knowing we will meet.