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My Mother is the greatest inspiration
To me, our family and everyone she meets.
Without even the slightest hesitation
She greets you smiling and cheerfully sweet.

The past few years have left her to suffer
With a dreaded disease which many of us fear,
It seems to have made her a lot tougher,
We wonder how she can endure the wear and tear.

You ask her how she is doing and she will say
I could sit here and be miserable and everyone hurt,
Or I can smile and say I’m doing okay for today,
So you’ll not be dreading to hear her being curt.

She keeps herself busy even when she’s not good
By making things pleasant for others she knows,
With projects for charities and her neighborhood
Which makes her happier; then how she glows.

Her visits to doctors and in for bad tests
Certainly don’t seem very pleasant to us;
But she cheers up the doctors and nurses the best
By laughing, joking and funny things to discuss.

When the time comes when her suffering is done,
She’ll still be an inspiration for all that she’s met
For surely she’ll be smiling down with the Great One,
We’ll be inspired and looking up to her yet.

© Copyright 1997 by Jean E. Gorney