Monday, November 8, 2010

there are moments....

when a mother's love for a child...
is SO PROFOUND,
 that it actually hurts....
when the child's tears or embarrassments 
LITERALLY become embodied
within the pit of her own womb ...
when she feels the child's pain so acutely,
that it causes her to double over in agony...
this kind of 'sympatico' is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to relate...
and frankly, I'm not so sure that ALL mothers have felt what I'm describing....
bottom line....
a mother's love for her child is a delectable gift from 'on high'....
cherish it....
wrap yourself in its silken puffiness....
lucky are you for having been given the grand ability to LOVE...

IS IT ALL RELATIVE ?

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