Love, from mom

Your eyes twinkle when you catch my eye

your skip, skips and you trip, and tip

as you run towards me,

arms spread wide.

 

Your strong fragile figure is easy to catch

when you leap into my arms like a bunny,

laughing into the air.

 

Your cheeks pull your lips into a smile

and the sun creates gold in your hair.

 

You start jabbering about Nicky, Ninny and Noor

But my eyes are stuck to you, in amour.

I remember

 

The first time your fingers grabbed mine.

The first time your mouth’s music sang my name.

The first time your feet carried you across the living room floor.

The first time I realised

you were my everything.

 

In restless dreams I walk but with you

Fear has no weapons to break you down with me as your shield

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

but with you by my side,

honey, we’ll be okay.

This poem reveals all about a mother’s love to her child. This person’s poem addresses the inquiry question: How do we deal with fear? I believe at the part where the poet writes “you start jabbering about Nicky, Ninny and Noor but my eyes are stuck to you, in amour.” she’s explaining how this mother has so many memories of her child and loves her child so much that her child doesn’t even know. And, “fear has no weapons to break you down with me as your shield” answers directly the inquiry question about fear. How with her child with her, fear disappears and the mother becomes a shield to protect her child from anything.