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STILL HERE?


In three days
My first son
Will be thirty

Difficult to comprehend
Why his mom
Is still here

She sits and writes and wonders why
God keeps her around
When she is old and sick

Still here to keep trying
Day by day
Still here to be a mother.


2/4/2009 1800  cj




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