Happy Mother's Day, Mom! Love, Steven

Mothers’ Love

A seedling nuzzles

into the soft warm earth

surrounded and protected

until the proper time

for it to send up a tender shoot

and its first green leaves.

Nourished by the soil,

watered by gentle rain,

warmed by the life-giving sun,

the seedling grows

tall and strong

and in its time

will blossom and flower.

You are all those things: 

the earth,

the rain,

the sun.

And while important,

they alone

do but life sustain.

More important still

than Nature’s gifts combined:

the endless fountain

of your mothers’ love.

Happy Mother's Day, Mom!

Love,

Steven