A mother's greatness
A mother's heart has love for all children
Each child she bears and rears in similar way
She tends to needs like hen to each chicken
And gets up early, wearied though by day.
She knows in person each and every child
She knows their wants even before they ask
Unlike her husband, she is always mild
And earnestly she tends to every task.
Each child appears an apple of her eye
She intercedes for little things they need
Ignoring faults, she loves to slog and die
She is the Angel who readies each feed.
There isn't a soul like mother on this earth
She guards each child so selfishly since birth
Dedicated to my most loving, living elderly mother
STELLA, Coimbatore, India
on the happy occasion of MOTHERS' DAY 2004