Mother (from my senior project)

I wanted to tell her she was beautiful,
but that was my big baby brother
and I was not in the picture.

Somebody told her she was beautiful,
I’m sure, and that is why she wears her ring.
and that is why she loves her little boy.

I still want to tell her she is beautiful.
Did you see her brown eyes,
overflowing with love and exhaustion?

Because she is beautiful,
even though I never tell her enough;
she is always the most beautiful thing.