Dear Mothers,
your name
your title
your pride
your struggle
your calling (or not)
you are a Mother.
And here we are.
We all do it differently, this motherhood thing.
We all say “well I would never ____”
and the next week we do just that.
We love different.
Live different.
Bedtime different.
Nourish different.
Curfew different.
Mothers,
we are like snowflakes, aren’t we?
We debate
screentime
playtime
allowance
sleepovers.
We don’t always agree.
We may be lazy
in some areas,
overbearing
in others.
We may mother “just right”
(although highly unlikely).
But mothers--MOTHERS.
I think we can all agree--
we want our kids to be more
kind
accepting
thoughtful
aware
tomorrow,
than they were today.
Dare I say,
we, Mothers
hope them to be MORE
caring
wise
respectful
than WE, Mothers
are, today?
Do you feel this too?
That you want more for your children?
Of course you do.
We pray and hope and wish all our wishes
They--our children,
our seeds
will better care for the earth
it’s every corner,
it’s air
it’s oceans
it’s every shade of people,
better than we have already done.
Better than we are currently doing.
Mothers, can we agree on this?
This one thing?
This betterment of our children,
their world?
When they were just babes in our arms
did we not whisper
promises that we would give them everything?
A better world tomorrow,
than we gave them today?
Mothers--
We--
our voices
our hands
our words
can
will
shape their tomorrow.
Can we try
to look past
policies and party lines that feel familiar
and see
really,
SEE
the divide
growing
in their tomorrow.
Can we see
the CHANGE that is needed
for their tomorrow?
Mothers,
will you vote for a better
tomorrow?
For us,
but always
mostly
for them.
Because that is what
We, mothers
do.
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