You were the first to hold me, and meet me with your eyes
A brand new little life, the far best earthly prize.
I just could not imagine, if I only knew
The immediate connection, and what that love would do.
You were the one to stay up late, enduring late night hours
All to bond in rocking chairs, function off your super powers.
I just could not imagine, if I only knew
Nothing would compare, to that time alone with you.
I began to walk and run, all too soon became the time
For a great, big, yellow, bus, with me second in the line.
I just could not imagine, if I only knew
You didn't cry where I could see, but now I have a clue.
With teenage years upon us, it was you who talked to me
Too much make- up, zits and drama, but my heart was all you'd see.
I just could not imagine, if I only knew
How forever you would picture, what I'd be like when I grew.
And then I turned eighteen, and was completely grown
All those years you spent on me, a child from God on loan.
And what I can't imagine, and what I never knew
Is how did you let go, to what meant most to you?
But then I was a mother, again, there with your praise
Seeing it through my eyes, honored and amazed.
No need to imagine and now I truly know
That this is how you felt, and this is why we grow.
The most precious thing I had, as a newborn little girl
Gave me the heart of love, for my now eight children, my whole world.
For all you were I thank you Mom, as I smile through all my tears
Heavens now as lucky, as I was for all those years.
I will have you as close to my heart as you always had me Mom....
"Love you more...."
