Sweet Rocket for Mom

I saw the Sweet Rocket  ‘come to bloom’

In our yard today…………. Like it does every year.

Memories come over  my heart of many years ago.

It was Mother’s day and I was driving to visit her.

It had not been easy times for me,  but I had not told her.

Mother’s don’t always need to hear about it all.

I really didn’t  have the money for a present nor a bouquet

Of pretty flowers.

But what did catch my eye  from along the roadside

Was the array of Sweet Rocket. 

Ah ha I thought ….. some beautiful wildflowers  that

She will enjoy.  

I pulled over to pick a bundle of them

And traveled on …..  to present them to her.

She greeted me at the front door with a huge smile.

She said ‘let me put them in water before they wilt’.

Little did I know the reason why they did.

She was so happy with her gift.

You see the Sweet Rocket as we know them,

Is really a weed  and not a wild flower, but it thinks that it is. 

Mom  knew that very well  but it was the thought of the gift,

Not the monetary value of it. …..  The value she found in it was Love.

This one grows back every year in your  Garden,

To bring memories of your Love for me.

Happy Mothers Day  Mom !

RLH 5.9.21