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Mother's Day

February 3, 2015
By Rivendell BRONZE, Olathe, Kansas
Rivendell BRONZE, Olathe, Kansas
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Favorite Quote:
How can I chose one? *sigh* If I must...
"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." -Brought to you by none other than Ferris Bueller


My mother has since passed.
Her requiem, her dead muse forever trespassed
my father’s soul. But, I was too young to know. Instead,
adventures with my father overflowed my head.
His dulcet hue of grace was forever colorfast.

With sugar-coated fingers, we made our memories everlast.
My father instinctively protected me;  a fear harassed
his mind: I’d go down the same path that led
my mother to pass.

Mother’s days passed. No mother I could cast
would fulfill my life as my father did so fast.
Though I had imagined cancer took her to her death bed,
I have learned that some strangers should just remain dead.
Her requiem was of torment. My father’s elixir was I, a shadow to outcast
that my mother had “passed.”.


The author's comments:

"Mother's Day" is a rondeau on Paternal/Agape love. While it seems from the title that the child going to speak about the love for his mother, he does not. As revealed in the first stanza, his only knowledge of his mother is that she is dead. He's raised by his single father, whom loves his son further than any mother the child could have asked for. Through heartbreak, torture and sorrow, the father prevails through  it, in order to care for his son. The love between them is ever so sharply increased at the end, in which the boy discovers the fate of his "dead" mother.  


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