Monday, September 4, 2017

Stella

My hero lives in a brown shuttered house
and smiles every time I arrive

She chases me with wooden spoons
Pretends she invented potato soup
Crushes on men with mustaches

Her candy dish is always full

She keeps my secrets
She worries
She forgives

She lets me be myself
Unapologetically be myself
She likes me

She gives me pennies for the wishing well

She sacrifices
She prays
She gives

She stands at the door of her brown shuttered house
to wave to me as I leave

Mother Theresa has nothing on my hero

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