My Mother is an Angel

My mother is an angel

Though I wouldn't name her so

For angels have a single source

Or so the tales go

My mother is from mountains tall

And meadows full of light

My mother is of stone and stream

And paths that grace the night,

A wolf that wandered as she will

Yet settled by the shore

Where she found her heart to live

With a sailor evermore,

Here she grows a garden

To keep her family well

Seeds she tends of plants

And on me she's cast her spell

For all the work she's done

All her eggs are in one boat

So she's raised me as best she can

And I try to stay afloat,

My mother is an angel

Wolf and dragon too

Guardian of dreams and hope

She guards her family true

She keeps us all together

She's the gravity you'll find

In the circles of our family

Together she does bind

In disaster and in holiday

She guides the family

Be it in wholesale gathering

Or our household yuletide tree,

My mother is an angel

Though I wouldn't tell her so

She watches over us all

With her winter sun halo.