Like a child

seeks help from a parent

my fingers extend.

A woman has such special hands,

so many things they do.

Today I lift some dishes dirty,

The bed got made around two-thirty;

The diapers soaked a little longer,

Then I'll live with my children and bring them great joy.

To repay all I've had from each girl and boy

Deep blue pools of trust gazing up at me,

a sacred moment, sealed in time, for all eternity.

A few months before I was born, my dad met a stranger who 

was new to our small Tennessee town. From the beginning, 

I love my house

And the work it gives to me,

The dear tasks of bringing