Mother's Day Poem by Chris Embrick

I read a poem that made me cry
about a poet's mother
And thinking of my own shed a tear
followed by another
A love so deeply woven
expressed within his sadness
How he longed to be loved again
rescued from days of melancholy madness
Afraid to live, afraid to die
I felt his heart bleeding
So great the grief and pain
I could not go on reading
And so I put his poem away
to take my thoughts elsewhere
My grief alone, enough to bear
on this Mother's Day.