These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day, Dear Mom!
Always and forever true.
People want to be 'round you.
Pleasantness in all you do
Your a joy and healing balm.

Mom, we love you ev'ry day.
Opportunities you give.
Time you use to help us live.
Helpful words you bless and say.
Everywhere you go is sweet.
Really pretty. You're so neat.
' Punctuality, we meet.
Serving God, we're taught to pray.

Do you know how much we love the
Angel Lady you've become?
Your honor loving hearts behoove.

We give you, Mother, love to bless.
We give you hope of heart.
We give you arms of joyful bliss.
To you, we owe our start.

These words seem merry not enough.
These words don't speak you full.
These words can't tell the world how tough
you are, nor love's great pull.

Dear Mom, accept these words now, please.
We'd buy the world for you,
or make a room to take your ease
with nothing else to do.

Dear Mom, we pray for God to bring
you rain, while you're at home,
that heart so full, you'd cry or sing.
No jobs. Nowhere to roam.

Dear Mom, you're loved from my heart so deep.
I wish to give you all
the joys and blessings, that you keep
within for when I call,

but nothing can bespeak the worth
you truly, deeply mean
to those you've known through life from birth,
and all these days between.

O, Mom, my heart is filled with tears.
It can't pour out the truth,
but thanks for loving me through fears,
today, and from my youth.

by Jay O’Toole
on May 8th, 2021