{"id":3463,"date":"2023-10-08T14:33:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T14:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2023-10-20T17:05:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T17:05:34","slug":"mother-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rashidmod.com\/?p=3463","title":{"rendered":"MOTHER (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hands\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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she gifted the world
\nwith your life
\nher own sacrificed
\nthat you might
\nlearn and grow
\nblossom and know
\nyour way around
\nplaces people and things unkind
\nthrough difficult times
\nno greater bind
\nthan her’s
\nlike roots to branch
\nleaving nothing to chance
\nyour first and lifelong protector
\nin turn we protect her
\ncultivated your energy
\nstood against your enemies
\nthe one true friend of me
\nfirst to rise
\nthat hungry mouths might feed
\nthe last to leave
\nshe always believed
\nin her children’s greatness
\nno matter others hatred
\nor condemnation
\ncommitted for the duration
\nshe was patient
\nendured your every shade
\nand season
\nfor a lifetime
\nyou were her reason
\nfor being
\na lifeline
\nat just the right times
\nshe’d come through
\nnever succumb to
\nself interest
\nor self need
\nto nurture and protect her seed
\nyou would always be
\nher first priority
\nyour first authority
\neven fully grown
\nyou’d never outgrow her
\nforever her baby
\nyou’d always owe her
\nno one could know her
\nas you have
\nflesh of her own
\ndeveloped and grown
\nbeneath her heart
\nfrom womb to tomb
\nbound your wounds
\nyour very first tunes
\nwere her croons
\nhummed in your ears
\nto dispel the fears
\nthat chased sleep away
\nday by day by day
\nshe’d stay
\nuntil consumed by grey
\nuntil her resting day
\na love like no other
\nwithout her there’d be none of us
\nour one enduring trust
\ngreater than father sister or brother
\nthe dearest of all loves
\nour mother<\/p>\n

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By Kevin ”Rashid” Johnson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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