You are constant care
For children and grandchildren, for everything in the world,
Endless ideas, shopping, work,
For you, what for others is living for yourself.

You are my inspiration, a piston to action,
Meaning in everything around,
Gratitude for the shared years of youth,
For the replacing of old with new.

I grumble, I resist, I treasure my peace,
I hide where there is stillness.
Will force the lazy one to march in line
Her feminine majesty.