It comes in tyrants,
it leaves in gusts.
It sings a song to each of us.

It can blow,
it brings the snow.
The sleet, the hail, the clouds.
It bends, it twists, it bows.

It will always be there.
It's legacy lives on.

Changing shape and shifting
floating, falling, lifting.

Calm and cool and free
like a carefree bumble bee.

Bringing snow and rain
never feeling pain.

A mother is someone who knows when you're sad.
Someone who will care for and comfort you till you are glad.

A mother can be a picker-upper of things.
Someone who let's you borrow her clothes, shoes and rings.

A mother is a beautiful woman.
Someone who frets and worries over her children.

A mother is a listener, someone who cares.
Someone who will always be there.

But mostly

It is there to guide you,
To take away your fright.

It peers through the darkness
To make the world bright.

I wish I could tell
All the things no one knows

Of the good times and sorrows
The happy, the sad

I wish people could understand
Why I'm cheerful or mad

My life isn't easy
With all the things to behold

Yet people wonder why I'm emotional
It's because I've never told

All the secrets locked inside
Like a treasure chest full of gold

I can never tell the secrets
That are locked up inside

We go to school together.
Good friendships never end.

You take me to grade 8 grad.
Our friendship going strong, as it always should.

You're there through trying high school years.
Being near you always makes me feel good.

To prom we go together.
Wish you were more than a pal.

Accepted to the same college.
Maybe if I got courage… No I can't tell you now.

After college we begin to drift.
You marry someone other than me.

Your wife thinks it's weird that we're "just friends"
If only I could make you see.

Ten year reunion, you have her kids.
It's too late to say how I feel.

Twenty years since high school, kids grown, wife gone.
I wonder if my feelings are still real.

Now you lay dying.
With your last breath you say you've always loved me true.

A mother lost, a family yearning.
Missing a loved one, you are learning.

Now that she's gone, how can you understand?
She isn't coming back, no matter how you demand.

It is so sad she had to go.
I wonder if you'll ever fully know.

Now up in heaven, looking down.
Always with a smile never a frown.

I ease ever closer.
Slowly drawing my sword.
Quick as lighting I make my move.

It strikes back.
Full of fury, a hit.
Blood stains the ground.

I stumble back.
Strike again.
Deadly was the blow.

It lays there
Bloody and dead.
It shan't rise again.

I wipe off my sword.
The pain is too great.
I fall to the ground.

The world is changing for the worst,
But who will take the blame?

Guns replacing swords.
Without reason people are dying.

Joints replacing cigarettes,
Dead children's families crying.

Babies being born to mother's to young.
Children being abandoned, too young to be left alone.

Children raising children.
Families on streets without a home.

Gangs creating violence.
People breaking every law.

People minding their own business,
Many being killed for what they saw.

Children of the future,
Must try to start anew