Never kissy and not too sweet
Always proper and dressed neat
Persnickety
Finicky
Fastidious
Particular
How I saw my mother
Dicodity is she was a nurse
Applying her drive
Attention to details
Resilience
Empowerment
Commanding ways
To provide top level care
Oil and water, that was us
But in the end I stayed resolute
To serve my mother
And try to understand
Things she’d endured
To make amends
I still miss my mother
Her ways saturated my being
Her words float from my mouth
As I grow older
I’m more like her in many ways
She left a mark on me
on her community
An awkward human doing her best
My mother