MOTHER'S LOVE

You were my first friend,

My first lover,

My first home.

 

You made me strong,

Loved me even when I was wrong.

 

Oh, my dear mother,

You knew what I couldn’t speak.

Fed me, carried me for months.

Made sure I wasn’t feeling weak.

 

Dressed your firstborn and I,

Side by side.

Slept beside us,

Even in our sleepless nights.

 

We’ve been the luckiest daughters,

To be birthed by you.

For you are god’s greatest gift.

You are the living proof he exists.

And, numbers are incapable of calculating our immense love for you.

                                      - Manya Singh Patel