Who is Your Mama

This is for all of my brothers and sisters who could have been raised by the system but someone else stepped up and stepped in. Thank God for your special surrogates.

 

Your mama is not that woman,

Not the woman who gave birth to you

With legs spread wide on a soiled and stained couch.

She's not the same woman

Who walked away from her child

Or the one who did so without a second glance.

Your mama is the woman,

The one who sacrificed for you,

Who was there whenever you said, “Ouch!”

Yes, she is that very woman,

The one who stayed the course,

The one who supported you

For you to ever have a world of a chance.

That is your mama.

So what if she didn't give you birth?

Call her Mama,

Your most treasured gift in all the earth.