Mom, I searched long and hard for the perfect Christmas gift <br />Just a little something to give your spirit a lift. <br />As I searched far and wide <br />There is a fact that I can not hide nothing that can be bought <br />Can capture a mother’s loving heart. <br /> <br />I get this feeling deep within my heart <br />with the sun sinking low as I wander around with no place to go <br />There is only one present that will do <br />your favorite flower Pressed with care <br />between some pages and a simple note <br />To say how I love you so and wish that I was there <br /> <br />Sitting on my bed clutching your present to my chest <br />my mind cloudy from the pills and the whiskey <br />Desperate to have you here with me <br />so I can give you your present <br />But All I can do is lay my head to rest on my pillow <br />And think of your cold stone there beneath the willow <br /> <br />Hush my son and don’t you fret <br />In your life there will be sorrows and regrets <br />You will face struggle and strife <br />But always remember that somewhere up above <br />There is Mamma looking down with love <br /> <br />In the morning waking with the sun <br />And the feeling that something has been done <br />I check the present held tight to my chest <br />I see through the shimmering prism of my tears <br />there below all that I had wrote <br />Was a short tear stained note <br />“ I love you to son” <br /> <br />© JPM 11/24/2008-11/25/2008<br /><br />Jim Milks<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-christmas-present-for-mom/
