My Life

	My Life A Poem for My Mother
	(by Rachel Williams)
	Twelve years ago On a bright clean spring morn I got my first hug On the day I was born You held me and fed me And rocked me to sleep You sang me a song For my soul to keep You taught me to stand You taught me to walk You taught me to smile You taught me to talk You taught me so much And I’ll never forget And I know that you are Still teaching me yet It wasn’t all happy It wasn’t all fun Sometimes it was bad And we had to run But you stayed by my side Held my hand when I hurt You brushed out my hair And washed off the dirt You came and you held me When I cried from the fright And you rocked me to sleep And stayed all the night You pushed me and pulled me To keep trying and grow To do all of the things That I love now, you know You showed me what it means To be brave and be strong To never give up And find a place to belong Then I saw you get weak And I saw you in pain And it still makes me cry To remember again You gave me such love And your strength with your touch And now that you’re gone I miss you so much I’ll think of the laughter And the fun and the games And the talks in my bed And all the silly names And if I have children I know what I’ll do I’ll be a great mom I’ll be just like you. Copyright � 1997 Rachel Williams