To Be a Mother Is to Be a Mother

To be a mother is to hoist onto your hips those on whom your image is imprinted bearing the burden of their weight, rejoicing in their return to affection and delighting in their wonder. To be accused of sentimentality one moment and injustice the next. The receiver of endless demands, absorber of perpetual complaints, wrecking her of bottomless needs. A mender of broken creations and comforter of the distraught children whose hands robbed them. Life giver, life shaper, empath, healer, original love.