MORE THAN A COAT

I caress the lining

of her leather coat

and think of all the times

she was there

 next to the satin

filled with love

shielded from the cold

feeling safe, secure

in my embrace.

I am reassured

that she is here

one more time

let me help you with your coat

Dear.

John A. Bayerl, May 10, 2012

Perhaps it's the reminder in the store where I looked for Mother's Day cards.  I remembered how  I would tease that she wouldn't get a card from me--she wasn't my mother.  Now, I couldn't look at those cards, what fun it would have been to pick one out just for her, usually it would contain a reference to something that only she and I knew about.  She was the mother of our children.

On the lighter side, I noticed a previously unseen category for Mother's Day cards..Ex-Daughter-in-Law. I suppose. . .