We fight her with hammer, chainsaw and nail
We abuse, tear, claw, and scrape
till she can take no more
Yet she relentlessly fights back each Spring,
not with a vengeance, but with love A hope for a new day.
It\u2019s the breezes she brings on a March day
They help smooth out the thickness
It is the cool winds she brings to give flight
to the scents of her flower children
I close my eyes, and stretch to reach the scent,
like a cat waking from a nap,
The exhaust of the car that just passed
or the freshly patched asphalt ahead,
I can no longer smell.
The perfume of the Laurel and
yellow buds of the Huisache tree have me in their honeyed limbs
The chattering of her fluffy-tailed progeny
running amok the new green leaves
playing Tag under the protective shade,
dims the buzzing groans, and frustrated sighs of the many highway travelers.
The chipper cooing, and chattering
to one another, of her winged children,
take me to a place where there are no iron-walkers,
no nail guns, or biting sounds; only the musicality of the grasses blowing,
and the bubbling brook reach my ears.
We are a relentless lot
We need, and want some more
We bite, we damage, we turn away,
but our Mother keeps fighting
to show us what we do not yet see
A mother\u2019s love never wanes<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4.24.19 (Rev 7.6.20)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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