Oh dearest mother
if only time entwined and did reverse...
May I take this
Opportunity to eternally...
Mimi, hey, that's me!
I'm known to my grandbabies as Mimi...
Now you're *ahem* seventy
You're wise but never old...
I can't solve all your problems
I can barely cope with mine...
So many things still to discover
A lifetime of things to go wrong...
I light a torch within this black
To show there is a way...
Even before the day you were born
Life dealt you its first blow...
When we were growing up together,
Sometimes you were a git...
What is love?
Is love a feeling that weaves dreams...
Perhaps this will be the only poem
I will ever unclothe with sadness...
What once I
sought and desired...