A pad challenge response from Linda M Crate

she believes in me
mother is the name
of God, the title of 
wisdom;
she is a guiding ship
and the port that leads home—

she is the lighthouse,
the womb, the friend, the
parent, and the authority;

she is a song of magic
too oft forgotten—

but she is patient, 
she is kind, she is full 
of effortless beauty
and charm;

she takes my hands any
time i have fallen 
and whispers to get up again—

she believes in me
and all of my strange dreams.
-linda m. crate