Virgin and Child with Bowl of Milk, Gerard David

WOMAN’S WORK
— Fay Inchfawn

Always one more meal to get;
one more train which must be met;
one more hopeless sock to mend;
one more invalid to tend;
one more salve for one more knee,
one more visitor to tea;
one more future bruised and scarred;
one more drop of spikenard;
one more problem, one more doubt;
one more mood to be smoothed out;
one more smile and one more kiss–
Ah, but ministry like this
will outlast the radiant sun.
Woman’s work is never done.

(Posted in honor of my mother, who died last year. Her birthday is today.)

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