To Those Who Made Me a Mother...

photo by Laurel (she did a good job!)

You are the trip I did not take

You are the pearls I could not buy,

You are my blue Italian lake,

You are my piece of foreign sky.

You are my Honolulu moon, 

You are the book I did not write,

You are my heart's unuttered tune, 

You are my candle in the night.

You are the flower beneath the snow,

in my dark sky a bit of blue,

Answering disappointment's blow with..

"I'm happy! I have you!"

- Anne Campbell