<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459755" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Poem for Mothers' Day</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh we never know our parents…<br>isn’t that the cruellest thing? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">we were never old enough<br>to know them as they were; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">how I wish I had been just as old<br>as she and he were; to sit<br>across the rug from them and say</div><div style="margin:10px 0">now tell me the story of your life, <br>don’t miss out anything..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">how could I then not love you more, <br>you strangers whom I fought to be<br>myself; where were yourselves the while? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">*</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’m crumpling this poem in<br>my salty hand and throwing it<br>into the wind whose wisdom<br>may dropp it at your feet; <br>your feet I never washed; <br>would wash now with my tears; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and then, perhaps, wash history<br>clean, with touched hands, shared laughter; <br>as clean now as ever after.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459755" data-title="Poem for Mothers' Day de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Oh we never know our parents… isn’t that the cruellest thing? we were never old enough to know them as they were; how I wish I had been just as old as she and he were; to sit across the rug from them and say now tell me the story of your ..."></div> </div> </div>

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