Today is mother’s day — and so poem about a memory of being a mother in the first year that still connects to this year.  There was a song sung by Susan Ashton titled ‘You Move Me’.  Not sure where we got this CD because we never were country and western fans, but Caleb, also surprising to us, seemed to be one from the start — these rhythms soothed him and so we played this song especially over and over…

‘You move me,’ the words
of a song that played often
helping us, help you to sleep.

Your Dad held you close,
over his shoulder and danced really –
it still moves me to think of it.

You were restless then, as you are
now – agitated deep down in a place
we can never see. Right now

you’re in your room, moving
as that song plays. It seems to still
soothe you; so I play it again and

then tell you the story how we
held you close – the rhythm soothing
you, the words soothing us:

‘You give us courage we didn’t know
we had…burning with love and with hope…
How you move me…how you move me…’

© 2016 – Laurel Archer

Here is a YouTube link to the song if you’d like to listen to You Move Me