Have No Fear, for Love Is All Around You

A Mother’s Day poem from a parent to a child who is now also a mother: Have no fear, for love is all around you. All come helpless from a common womb. Perhaps you do not know that love surrounds you. Perhaps you do not know that you're in bloom. Yet mothers, too, are children, ever loved, Minded by the living and the dead, Old enough to give, as time has proved, The need no less, though time and tears have fled. A Mother’s Day poem from a parent to a child who is now also a mother Have faith that love's a mystic tide that flows Equally to and from the heart, Returning, turning as it comes and goes, 'Mid moon A Mother’s Day poem from a parent to a child who is now also a motherand moon your sea, your song, your art. Sing, then, of this moment of your giving, Deep within the ebb and flow of living. All you feel is what was felt for you, Yearning your own yearning will renew. © by Nicholas Gordon