TO MOTHER

How shall I say I love you,

Since every meal we ever ate

Included just a pinch of love?

All cakes and pies were flavored

With just a drop or two of care.

When you placed your arms about me,

All the world seemed so good.

How did something this marvelous happen

To someone as plain of face as me?

All these years my heart was filled

So much with all the love you gave

That it seems almost impossible to me

That the love you gave so freely

Came to me much like an act of faith.