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My Dear Mother

Mother is a nurturer and protector
Mother is a conception vessel
Mother is an incubator of progeny
Mother is a woman with a big heart

Now I clean your house
Prepare your meals
Manage your medications
Put food into your mouth
Make you morning tea
Wash the sleep out of your eyes
Put your glasses on
So you can see my face
Smiling back at you

Disease and old age, a second childhood
Now we have reversed roles
And I worry about you
My Dear Mother

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difficult to fulfill the role of nurturer and have the roles reversed. Not hard in the sense that it not something we don't want to do, but something that we never figured we would have to do. I love the things that seem so simple, yet something that is done for her comfort. Washing her face and putting on her glasses, so that she can see your smiling face, the face of the child that loves her and is ready and willing to do for her, the things that she used to do for him. Very well done! ~ Geezer.
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Many thanks for your kind commentary, it is an interesting challenge and a personal subject to me, my relation to my mother and all she means to me.

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I agree with Geezer in all that he has said. I can only add that these lines are repetitive:

Mother is a nurturer and protector
Mother is a conception vessel
Mother is an incubator of progeny
Mother is a woman with a big heart

I suggest that you try something like this:

Mother is a nurturer and protector
a conception vessel
an incubator of progeny
she is a woman with a big heart

for a smoother flow. it is only a suggestion, to use or not.

*hugs, Cat

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