A gift for mom

For Mother's day, the boys commissioned Sarah Liu, our new favorite word smith to write a poem for mom.

At a future date, when she's the Poet Laureate of New York, you can say you read some of her work here first!

Motherhood’s Symphony

The prelude to motherhood
seems so calm in memories,
life’s waiting room
protecting this small part
in an anxious womb,
Mathias’ tiny heart
beats steady and staccato.

For when a child, eager to meet
his mother, arrives so early,
the world takes note:

one tiny grasp curled
around a mother’s pinky,
watchful gazes,
through glass and tubes.

These mothers are given
an extra measure of moments,
to steady their fears.

And when a jovial Johan
arrives, a clanging cymbal,
and joyful harmony,

What else can be heard,
but symphony in his laugh?

For you can hear the beauty in
the cries and falls,
the sighs and calls,

the smashing bricks and
crashed toy trucks and
the whirring tiny engines,
And how they wind our

strangest sounds into
conciertos new!

And so:

We three boys would like to say
we love you more each passing day
And hope you live to see the way
our children’s children laugh and play.