For all the women who have touched my life
Happy Mother’s Day!
Women of courage
Women of valor
Your timeless wisdom
Enables me
To stride through life
My head held high
Knowing that I am descended from thee.
Native woman scraping the earth
Share-cropper’s daughter in patches
Dreams take flight on the tail of a kite.
Roots in black soil still hold them,
The river, the sun and the dirt,
I am a part of it
It is a part of me.
I am my mother’s daughter.
Rosie the Riveter
Humble Christian
Boisterous lady of daring,
River woman
Service man’s wife
Toil, tinker, and strife.
Woe to woman
To bear a child,
Sorrow, the lot
To bury one.
Woman of valor
Woman of courage
Your tears
Your smiles
They move me.
Yours are our memories
Our songs
and
Our stories
It is to you we lift our voices and cry.
Women of my family
Women of my life
You have given me courage, valor and strength.
I am
Because of You!
