(This is a poem that my friend asked me to post in honor of her mom who died on October 2, 2001. It is her message to her beloved mother!)
~ ROCK ME TO SLEEP ~
Backward, turn backward, O time in your flight,
make me a child again, just for tonight.
Mother, come back from the echoless shore,
Take me again to your heart as of yore;
Kiss from my forehead, the furrows of care,
smooth the few silver threads out of my hair.
Over my slumbers, your loving watch keep;
Rock me to sleep, Mother - Rock me to sleep!
Over my heart, in the days that are flown,
no love like mother-love ever has shone;
No other worship, abides and endures
faithful, unselfish and patient like yours;
None like a mother, can charm away pain
from the sick soul and the world weary brain.
Slumber's soft calm, o'er my heavy lids creep;
Rock me to sleep, Mother - Rock me to sleep!
Mother, dear Mother, the days have been long
since I last listened to your lullaby song;
Since then, and unto my soul, it shall seem
womanhood's years have been only a dream.
Clasped to your heart, in a loving embrace
with your light lashes just sweeping my face
never hereafter, to wake of to weep.
Rock me to sleep, Mother - Rock me to sleep!
by: Elizabeth Ahers Allen
