Mothers and Daughters

Mother and Daughter, Margaret Mair, Original art

Over time we spin

The tangle of our lives

And loves and ideas and hopes

Into threads of every colour,

Some bright as sunlight,

Others dark as death,

Threads that weave

Through our mother

And daughter lives

Creating a gently enveloping

Rainbow-hued fabric

Of comfort and care.

We weave its beauty

Together through

Those uneasy times

When threads wear thin and break

And strange holes appear

That must be carefully rewoven

To keep the fabric strong,

Through those growing times,

Creative times when

We re-invent our selves

And new colours must be

Worked into the pattern.

We weave knowing

That so long as

We keep weaving threads of

Words and thoughts and memories

This flowing, growing fabric

Of interwoven lives

Will stay strong,

Loving and lovely.

 

 

Written by Margaret Mair

Picture, original art by Margaret Mair