Mums in Reverse

This special Mother's Day poem was submitted by my mother in law Lisa Moore. Written after the passing of her own mum, Nola Hodgetts - our Nanny and matriarch.

You birthed me

And loved me

Tenderly

Day by day

You taught me well

Along the way

As you made me who I am today

With loving directions a tear or two

And laughs with you

For you was my Mother

And I was your child

A natural union for us two

And then the day of changes came

All different and new

Slowly and surely

I became you

I loved you sincerely

Tenderly day by day

I helped you a lot along the way

We walked a new road

And shared the load

As I become the Mum

And you the child

With loving directions

And a tear or two

Laughs and frustrations

For us two

This journey we walked

As we both said – I love you

Privileged we were

And privileged I was

To have had a mother like you.

And so the journey we have taken

Comes to the fork in our road

Until we are awakened

When the new day will be told.

Lisa and her mum Nola at Mother's Day high tea 2018

Lisa Moore is a wife, mother of 3 (1 by marriage), grandmother of 1 and dog mum to French bulldog Noni. She's currently using her free time, since leaving her job in aged care, by Zentangling, planning and designing her new house, helping on the olive farm she recently moved to and babysitting her granddaughter.