Mother

She gives her life, that I may have
All the things she never did
Got up with me during nightmears and sickness
When I was a kid
All those dates for ice cream after little league games
I shall never forget
And the christmas she couldn't afford it
But I still got a tv set
Now that I am growing up,
She still continues to give
To make sure that I will have the life
That she never did
She tries to protect me
From things that cannot be protected
Normal hurts of the world
And boyfriends I have selected
All this I know now
Was done out of love
But sometimes I wasn't too sure
When push came to shove
But in all my 20 years
I have learned so much about being a mom
And because of her example
I will be great when my time finally comes
So in closing I want to thank her
For all that she has done
For every baseball game she has ever went to
Sun or rain, loss or won
For every bowling Saturday
And every bowling tourney
For all the advise she's given me
To help me on lifes journey
So I say to her now
As should every daughter and every son
Thanks ever so much
For being my mom


- Jennifer Lebeznick May 2003

What a precious poem sugar!!! Thanx for sharing! You're the best! :D :D

aww thanks! :D

What did your mom say when she read it? I'll bet she cried, huh?

I read it to the congregation at church. They all seemed to like it. My mom didn;t say much. I don;t really have a great relationship with my parents... personality clashes I guess... but I appreciate everything they do for me as parents. I understand all the sacrifices they made for me. I guess I can see all that now that I am getting older.

Dearest JennieBean,

That was such a beautiful poem, and I for one would be proud to be your mother!

I'm sure your mom loved the poem, but maybe she is someone who can't express her emotions.

You are a very special young woman.

Love,

Cats

Cats,

Thank you very much. And I think you are right about the not being able to show emotions. Both of my parents are that way. They have never shown any emotion, except anger, during my whole life, they threw money at me (which we really don't have a lot to spare and I wish they wouldn't waste it :blink: ) instead. For example, I have never heard I love you from them in my whole life, but for christmas the year I went away to collge I got a tv and a vcr. My dad and I had a huge fight over something when I was 16, instead of him saying I'm sorry, I woke up with a brand new stereo next to my head the next morning. Stuff like that. I actually pointed this out to them last summer when I was home from college for the summer and they had never really noticed it. They didn't have much growing up so they wanted to make sure I did I guess. Anyway, my mom started to try to say I love you to me once in a while, but when you grow up not hearing it ever, well quite frankly, it was kinda weird to hear and (you're gonna hate me for this but) I wasn't able to return it. I find that i express myself much more clearly and easily in the written word, rather than vocally.

So, that's my lil confession/story :P I hope I don't sound too evil... :wacko:

- Jen

Jenn, the fact that you have personality clashes with your parents and still wrote and read publicly this heartfelt thanks to your mom makes me love you even more. What a gal!!!!