I Always Loved You, For Maria
To my dear daughter...
I loved you, in your sweet Mary Janes.
In all our travels that were fine and plane.
You cannot remember how I pulled your hair.
Those braids,so tangled yet shiny and brunette fair.
You won’t have the pride, I did.
Watching you from the audience at Fairmont, you on stage,
You were just a kid!
Nor, how I hurt inside, when children called you terrible names.
Those brats with no hearts and no shame!
The fear I felt, when your face was split.
I stood outside the hospital, crying salty tears, that stung and bit.
And oh, the Christmases, when I could not provide you the best!
You went without plenty, and yet you turned out to be a far more than
cut above all the rest!
You told me once, when I was hopeless and crying.
That God was always with us, to keep on trusting Him and smiling.
Each summer, without you, I was so lost.
You flew to Chicago to be with your grandparents,
Life without you, seemed hardly worth the cost!
My pride in you, like a colored sunset that never ends.
Or perhaps a gorgeous rainbow and it’s colorful, shiny trends!
You grew to be one glorious soul!
Your contributions to this society simply grow and glows!
As a wife, you are unsurpassed!
Thank you for my grandson, Edward,
I shall call him, “outstanding”and like
his Mom, cannot be outclassed.
My life, I see, comes to its close.
Thus, I leave you my poetry, I hope some with bless you,
like the dew on a summer rose.
That is my everlasting gift to you.
Just simple words and phrases, that
when I am gone, sing to you forever!
That, my daughter, I will love you, is
my lifelong treasure!
Love,
Mommy
1-26-2022
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