Mother's Day

Willem Bernardus Tijssen

Once in a year you make up your mind in a different way.
It is on that special day, they call mother-day.
You know she will be for ever the most important woman in your life;
The one who had learned you how to survive.
No matter the storms, which your life had to sustain;
She always kept you out of the rain.

Once in a year in a special way;
You make her a better day on mother-day.
There are no ways and no reasons why;
The importance of her existence you can't deny.
The older, wiser woman, nice and kind
Made you thinking before you could make up your own mind.

Once in a year there isn't a better place to stay,
Then in the arms of your mother on that special day.
You were inside her before you were there;
She had time for you, if she hadn't it to spare.
She made the child you were to the human you would be;
All she did for you , she did it only for free.

Once in a year your thoughts are going in one way.
They thrive you to where the importance of your existence lay.
You will be again aware, that there is one woman,
Who will always want to give you mother care;
And you know the only time you will have for her,
On mother-day, She again will be there.