To A Mother

June 23, 2015

The wisdom of your years

Is stippled on your face.

Pockmarks on a worn canvas.

There’s history there

On your weathered bones,

Stories of love,

Loss,

Loneliness,

Life,

Scribed into the marrow.

How beautiful you are

In your timelessness.

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