For my mum, and for all the mums out there – this one’s for you.
My latest poem, A Mother’s Day is Every Day, is a celebration of mothers all over the world – and not just on Mothers’ Day.
Enormous thanks to the 70+ amazing sons and daughters who helped create this collaborative celebration – I hope it captures some of the love you feel for your mums!
Had I not have known it – been so lucky to have you first-hand –
I would not have believed it possible for a person’s love to be quite so grand.
Not only have you led me from one happiness to another,
but you have shown me just how beautiful it is for a child to have their mother.
Thank you for not just caring, but for teaching me how to care;
for showing me that a life lived well is a life truly worthy to share.
Without your words of wisdom, your words of courage and hope and praise,
I do not know how I would have made it this far – through the long nights and longer days.
So much of who I am today I owe to you and all you know,
and so much of who I strive to be comes from your aura, your drive and your glow.
You taught me how to live and love, and how to love to be alive,
you taught me to fight for the things I dream: to keep right on; to strive.
I am the man I am today because of the fires you lit long ago:
I’ll live out my days bathed in their warmth as they illuminate these paths and roads.
And no matter how far down these roads I stride, please always remember thing:
I may have found my own voice now, but it was you who taught me to sing.
