For Mother

Inscribe the Wonder That Is You

Oct. 22, 2005

Gather all my childhood toys,

Toss them far beyond the stars,

Grief the eater of my joys

Desire with its thousand scars,

Take the smallness of my state,

My limited parochial view

Erase them from this living slate,

Inscribe the wonder that is you,

The creation you have laboured for

And sacrificed your life that love

Might enter through the heart's closed door

And something sacred in us move

The soul to its appointed realm

With you the guide at our ship's helm.