Remember boys
Are tender souls
With mud stains
And Xbox games
Running fast
Looking back
Sword fights
Movie nights
Flexing muscles
Soda burps
Green slime snakes
And broken plates
Little men
In the making
In the making
Make my heart melt
With “Mom, I love you”
Little men
In the shaping
Their growing pains
Are mine too
Remember boys
Are tender souls
With dirty hands
And…pure hearts
© 2007 Jennifer Wagner
For the boys who delight me daily. I am so grateful to be your Mom! I wrote this not long after the birth of my
youngest son in 2007. I often cringe when I read my past work but the sentiment is there so I’m pulling it out of the archives to submit it to The Poetry Pantry: Mothers Around the World. Happy Mother’s Day to all moms…hope
you have a beautiful day!