FREE VERSE POETRY
A Mother’s Love Is Like A Compass
A poem for mother
A mother’s love is like a compass
She navigates the way
My way
She tells me where to go
I may not follow
I may steer myself
in the wrong direction
As she’s Captain of my life ship
Yes Ma’am!
She’s my lighthouse
Flashing her guiding light
right before me
For the world to see.
She’s my GPS
Illuminating with new technology
don’t take me to a dead end
And leave me there.
Her moral compass,
determines my directions
Her eastern ways
Leads me to the sunshine
Her northern star
Is Polaris
Takes my darkness away
Her Southern cross
I’ve seen many times
The angled cross
She gets 5 stars
Out of 5
I rise
Her due west
Puts me to the test
Glaring at the sunset
I don’t regret
Her orientation
Through my life.
She stabilized
The unstable
Her compass rose
Suppressed my growth
Sort of.
Her angles
Her glass shelter
Her golden topper
Covered up
Her own meaning.
Her magnetic field
Continues to draw me
Closer in.
I won’t get pricked,
By her magnetized needle
It doesn’t hurt
Much.
At this point,
She pivots me
To my rotating axis
Of dreams unclear
To regelation and fear
My geographical
Location, location, location!
Is sheer navigation.
No moss
Or vegetation
Can she pinpoint where I am now?
She mapped
My destiny.
A lamp to my feet,
Polishing my pathways
straight and super strong
As the days are long.
The light of God’s love
Radiating in her.
Her compass is dimmed,
She lives to guide no more.
Still my enteral flame.
Thank you Sumaya Ali for this poem’s inspiration.
Thank you for reading.
