Duane Udd

How can fathers fully fathom

Deepest depths of mother love

Only God in all His wisdom

Love's Great Architect above

Understands that inner bonding

Through nine months preceding birth

Can't be severed by swift cutting

Unseen cords criss-cross vast earth

Linking children with their mother

Over miles that intervene

Near or far from one another

Nothing really comes between

Mother's arms life's softest cradle

Warming milk with mirrored smile

Long lost mem'ries oft enable

Feelings to suffuse awhile

Nothing alters her affection

Though some deem her offspring strange

She allows for imperfection

When life's times and seasons change

Sacrifice is never too great

Work for her has no known end

Children's slave and husband's helpmate

Others too on her depend

Mother's day is never ending

Always one more thing to do

Clothes or sometimes hearts need mending

Making things as good as new

Loving deeds are all recorded

Children rise to call you blessed

By God's grace you'll be rewarded

Darling you're the very best

© Duane W. Udd 14th April, 1998