I played songs that made me think of my mother and great grandmother. I went through about five or six drafts before I finished. She sent me a quick synopsis of what she thought about her mother and some of the things they did. She told me that before they got off the phone with each other they had a saying, "best mother, best daughter." After I had started on the poem, she asked me if I would include this at the end of the poem. But what she didn't know was that I had already done it. I sent her the poems to get her approval and she approved them. Here is one of the poems that I wrote for her...
Best Mother, Best Daughter
Upon faith is where she found her strength
As her love she gave that had no length
Within her soul, there lies the key
To the meaning of giving that’s tranquility
She gladly gave it to set me free
As God did for her and our family
Tears that fall from my eye are not from sorrow
But from the enchantment that she placed upon my tomorrow
Filling my heart with nothing but joy and glee
Giving me the ability to look beyond sight to see
See the beauty of faith that she blessed with love
Not depending on the hands of man but the hands from above
As they touched the soul of a woman that’s oh, so nice
Defeating the battle of the undefeated not once, but twice
Elegance was her scent as she was serenaded with hope
Placing the aroma of strength within the air to help all cope
Deliverance was her song and the tune is carried by grace
Creating a melody within my heart that keeps a smile upon my face
Today, I thank you Lord for all that you did for her
Until next time mom, “Best Mother, Best daughter”
As her love she gave that had no length
Within her soul, there lies the key
To the meaning of giving that’s tranquility
She gladly gave it to set me free
As God did for her and our family
Tears that fall from my eye are not from sorrow
But from the enchantment that she placed upon my tomorrow
Filling my heart with nothing but joy and glee
Giving me the ability to look beyond sight to see
See the beauty of faith that she blessed with love
Not depending on the hands of man but the hands from above
As they touched the soul of a woman that’s oh, so nice
Defeating the battle of the undefeated not once, but twice
Elegance was her scent as she was serenaded with hope
Placing the aroma of strength within the air to help all cope
Deliverance was her song and the tune is carried by grace
Creating a melody within my heart that keeps a smile upon my face
Today, I thank you Lord for all that you did for her
Until next time mom, “Best Mother, Best daughter”
-K.J Swint
Great poem! I hate to hear about you and your friends sorrow. I often think of my parents death and try to spend as much time as I can with them, because I know one day we will part. I often send people the following to uplift their spirits. I hope it does the same for you.
ReplyDeleteIsaiah 57
1 The righteous perish,
and no one takes it to heart;
the devout are taken away,
and no one understands
that the righteous are taken away
to be spared from evil.
2 Those who walk uprightly
enter into peace;
they find rest as they lie in death.
John14
1 "Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God [a]; trust also in me. 2 My Father's house has plenty of room; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going."
5 Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"
6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. 7 If you really know me, you will know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him."
Revelation 21:3-4 NIV
3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
John 11:33-44 NIV
33When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. 34"Where have you laid him?" he asked. "Come and see, Lord," they replied. 35Jesus wept. 36Then the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"
37But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?"
Jesus Raises Lazarus From the Dead
38Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave with a stone laid across the entrance. 39"Take away the stone," he said.
"But, Lord," said Martha, the sister of the dead man, "by this time there is a bad odor, for he has been there four days."
40Then Jesus said, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?"
41So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me. 42I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me."
43When he had said this, Jesus called in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" 44The dead man came out, his hands and feet wrapped with strips of linen, and a cloth around his face.
Jesus said to them, "Take off the grave clothes and let him go."
John 4:9-14 NIV
9The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[ 12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"
13Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."