A Mother's Day Poem for Kelly

05/05/2009 -

Men: When is the last time you did something beautiful and wonderful for your mother or your wife (the mother of your children!) This year, I was inspired to tell my wife how I feel about her since she is the best mother I know (well, next to my own mother of course). Here goes!

A Mother’s Day Poem for Kelly

I look back now to that day and that time

when I became yours and you became mine;

your white wedding dress etched in my head,

you walk the aisle towards me the day that we wed.

With flowing white train also in tow

gliding ov’r petals of roses below.

Step after step your gentle feet crept;

closer t’the altar where I stood inept

peering at beauty defined by your gaze

o’whelmed with thankfulness, wonder, and praise

to God the Maker and Creator of all

holding my breathe I tried not to fall.

Finally your father gave over your hand;

we exchanged rings at the pastor’s command.

Facing each other right square now we step;

your smile dethrones the tears that you wept.

And then in the presence of God and of man

we took oaths and vows under strict reprimand

that should come illness, poverty, death

we’d leave not the other until our last breath.

And if that day were not too sweet to bear,

two years later and another was there;

a child, an infant growing inside you

a sweet little girl, and beautiful like you.

And but a blink later, another life joy

Conceived and growing inside you: a boy!

Two children now; again my pride swelled.

your courage in childbirth was unparalleled.

A family you’d given me; I desire no other

I love you dear Kelly as both wife and mother

of the children you’ve given me, permitted by God

your work, your labor, your love I applaud.

Together the four of us live, strive, and love

To honor and glorify our Father above

And filled with His Spirit guiding our way

We seek to honor Him day after day.

And so we are blessed beyond counting I cry

by God and His Christ who draw us still nigh

to each other; our love was pure from the start

and ever will be: “till death do us part!”

M.V.E. May, 2009

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