My Child

It is a terrible love

this fierce mother’s love I feel,

for my child.

She does not understand it,

my childless daughter,

she cannot comprehend how I feel,

or why

I would go to the ends of the earth for her,

I would fight to the death for her,

I would suffer any pain for her,

and wash her soul in healing tears.

She is my daughter.

She is my child.

That’s all.

And that’s everything.

~Kathie Adams Brown ( April 16, 2015)

Happy Mother's Day