I SHALL DOTE MYSELF <br /> <br />I was inspired to write "I Shall Dote Myself" Mother's Day, after noticing I had not received one card from my four (4) children! I thought, perhaps they cannot -after so many Mother's Days-find the words to express their sentiments. Her, my children, I shall dote myself: <br /> <br /> <br />I am a widow, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, a sister, a partner and friend- <br />just an ordinary woman who can do extraordinary things. <br />I know how to lead, and <br />I can follow <br />I am naive: <br /> shun sophistication in styles and techniques <br />I am ingenious: <br /> clever, original, and effective. <br />I am sensitive, but <br /> can be thick-skinned <br />I am a pragmatic, yet <br />I have fancies: <br /> Impulsiveness, desirous-sometimes unfounded. <br /> <br />I'd rather truthful pains than comforting lies <br />I try not to judge, for <br />I too may be judged <br />I like goodness, <br />I dislike wickedness… <br /> I see me in both. <br />I witness justice and experience its prejudice <br />I practice tolerance, and <br />I disavow unpermissiveness <br />I see love as a present and <br /> give it wholeheartedly <br /> <br /> <br />I, myself, believe: <br /> love, loyalty, and honor to be precursors… <br /> to gently tapping the souls of humanity <br /> to bring out the best <br /> of humankind…what I believe <br /> can be a cure for the worst conditions. <br /> <br /> <br />-Almedia S. Knight -ASK (May 2007) <br /> <br />(Later, that day, I received calls from my children, and their cards were received the following day!)<br /><br />Almedia Knight Oliver<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-shall-dote-myself/
