Oh my gosh, what happened to me, where am  I now, I cannot see,

It looks like paradise, tropical breeze, tastes like salt and smells like the sea!

Could I be on vacation and forgot to call home?

Or AM I ON A DESERTED ISLAND AND ALL ALONE?????

Well if this were true, it might be really cool,

I could sleep all day, and swim in the turquoise pool.

I would eat lots of bananas and drink tons of coconut milk,

I would wear seaweed skirts and pretend they were made of silk.

But then the night would come, and the stars would shine so bright,

I would think about just one person and wish I could hold her tight.

I would call out her name and try to be as loud as a bomb,

I would yell to the heavens “Where the heck is my MOM!!?”

She would be there in my mind, I would picture her big blue eyes,

I would smell her chocolate chip cookies, and I would hear her “Oh Dear” sighs.

She would give me a great big hug, and tell me we make a great team,

Until I awoke on the sand, and realized it was all a dream.

I might try to sing or dance, take walks along the beach,

I would distract myself with trying to catch fish that were out of reach.

I would collect all sorts of shells and go out in the surf and wade,

I may even try to befriend the elusive little mermaid.

But in the end my thoughts return, to the one and only thing

That makes me happy every day, that makes my heart truly sing.

I don’t think I could survive, I don’t think it would be worth the fight.

I couldn’t bear a day without her and would be so alone at night.

I know she does my laundry, I know she makes me lunch,

I know she drives me to practice, and gives me snacks to munch.

I know she helps with my homework, and cheers at every game,

But these things are not what will be missed on my island without a name.

 

What will be missed most of all, and this is telling no lie,

Is the hand that sweeps against my cheek when I am about to cry.

It’s the little things, the looks, the smiles, that show how much she cares

If I were alone on a deserted island, this is the one loss I couldn’t bear.

So if you haven’t figured out by now, in case you still need me to say

The one and only thing I couldn’t live without on the island with a bay,

Is the person who I depend on above and beyond all others,

That would be the one who loves me most and that of course, is my mother.!