Thank You Mom: A Mother’s Day Poem by Asha Lipman

/ Aarati Kasturirangan

This poem was a gift I received from my daughter, Asha Lipman, age 11, on Mother’s Day 2020 in the first six weeks of the Covid-19 lock down of Philadelphia. I am putting it in my blog so it is never lost to me.

Thank you mom

For deciding to try one more time

For first having a good long cry

Then working again after the two you tried

Thank you mom

Thank you mom

For trying that hard on your own

For making a boulder out of stone

For taking anywhere and making it home

Thank you mom

Thank you mom

Thank you for the late nights

The work fights

The fighting for people’s rights

Thank you mom

Thank you mom

Thank you for the midnight snacks

The double checks

The extra bed tucks 

Thank you mom

Thank you mom

Thank you for the endless hugs

Thanks for the unconditional love

Even when  I’m not enough

Thank you mom

Thank you mom for being you

Thank you for what you do

Thanks for being the person who

Is a shoulder to cry on 

I love you mom

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