The Mother Watch
January 3, 2008 by admin
Filed under The Path to Home
She never closed her eyes in sleep till we were
all in bed;
On party nights till we came home she often sat
and read.
We little thought about it then, when we were
young and gay,
How much the mother worried when we children
were away.
We only knew she never slept when we were out
at night,
And that she waited just to know that we’d come
home all right.
Why, sometimes when we’d stayed away till one
or two or three,
It seemed to us that mother heard the turning
of the key;
For always when we stepped inside she’d call
and we’d reply,
But we were all too young back then to under
stand just why.
Until the last one had returned she always kept
a light,
For mother couldn’t sleep until she’d kissed us
all good night.
She had to know that we were safe before she
went to rest;
She seemed to fear the world might harm the
ones she loved the best.
And once she said : ” When you are grown to
women and to men,
Perhaps I’ll sleep the whole night through ; I may
be different then.”
And so it seemed that night and day we knew a
mother’s care
That always when we got back home we’d find
her waiting there.
Then came the night that we were called to gather
round her bed :
” The children all are with you now,” the kindly
doctor said.
And in her eyes there gleamed again the old-time
tender light
That told she had been waiting just to know we
were all right.
She smiled the old-familiar smile, and prayed to
God to keep
Us safe from harm throughout the years, and
then she went to sleep.
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