Don't be afraid
to be a mama's boy
like LeBron James
Bill Clinton
or Barack Obama.
You may develop
a healthier respect for women
responsibility
sensitivity and empathy
and may everyone
go through life
with one mama figure
or more
birth or adopted
female or male
and today
tomorrow and after give props
to Anna Jarvis
who as a young woman
in 1908 started Mother's Day
(yes grammar nerds
with emphasis
on the apostrophe)
to honor her mother
after her death from cancer.
A religious social activist
she was against
the commercialization
of the holiday
so the iconic Beatles tune
"All You Need is Love"
is most fitting
(but she was curiously silent
about unauthorized and embarrassing
"throwback" pics
on social media).
This poem © 2014 Emily Cooper.
