Don't forget to take some time between beers this weekend to remember our POWs and MIAs. This would also be an excellent time to discover Marsha's new blog I'm still in the process of putting the finishing touches on; click here.

A Mother’s Tears
Marsha Burks-Megehee, 2003

A mother’s tears were shed today
For a battle long ago;
Her precious gift to a warrior son
Whose fate she’ll never know.

Not heroes’ shiny medals
For courage through their fears,
No ribboned badge of honor
Can match a mother’s tears.

A mother’s tears are courage.
A mother’s tears are hope;
For the babe once at her bosom,
Led away in captive’s rope.

Her badge of honor, “Mother’s Tears“,
More precious than the gold
In all the gleaming medals
Of heroes, brave and bold.

A mother’s tears forever
Undimmed by grief and years,
Never tarnish….never fade,
“God’s Diamonds….A Mother’s Tears!”

Marsha Burks-Megehee, 2003

Contributed by Bill Faith on May 26, 2007 at 01:54 PM in Marsha Burks Megehee, Memorial Day, Poetry | Permalink

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