Her haughty smiles were not that many though <br />When I asked from her a crucial favor <br />Taking her most loved maiden and savor <br />As my companion in this world of dough <br /> <br />We tried to negotiate a little more <br />Yet her firm disapproval was so real <br />In silence then we moved along the shore <br />Uniting our lives by an endless seal <br /> <br />Time was kind then as it healed wounds at dawns <br />With a Balm of Gilead that soothed its sway <br />Now with her maiden’s new leaf on its way <br />Curving her lips with convex lines but yawns <br /> <br />That was good for all to see and to know <br />But seasons had past without her grown life <br />In our young home where love’s supposed to flow <br />She loves to visit with few goods and strife <br /> <br />We consulted a book to check this flaw <br />Hoping to see things back to harmony <br />It reads like a plea: Love your enemy <br />Ah! that’s why I love my mother-in-law<br /><br />Edgar Andrade Baguio<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-love-my-mother-in-law/
