Ode to Ma Dukes

Oh, mother you are so great!

I should praise God everyday for having you

Sitting at your desk 8 hours a day

Straining your eyes away

Doing what you can do best

For me and for you

Thinking non-stop 24/7

About every little detail

Making sure I'm always straight

Staying on me about my grades

Giving me advice before I do something wrong

Talking out my problems with me

I know I stress you all the time

But you don't know how much I appreciate you

I know you're already stressed out all the time

Off work and school burying you down

You're so amazing how you do the things you do

I look up to you

How you manage a full time job and school

Trying to become a nurse

How you started from the bottom and you're getting to the top

Raised me on your own to the person I became to be

I know some of me isn't like you

But you dealt with it anyway

I don't know any other way to put this

Thank you for everything

You mean the world to me

If I didn't have you I would have nothing