A mother surprised us,
her sweat and her thought,
made the vegetables inside out
with spices,
she served and then walked away
back to her kitchen,
the gate, she whispered to her daughter
and winked,
living and then entering a line,
"this is what I was waiting for"
from the people who she loved and shared.

God included women
to bind the forces all around,
or may be God was a woman,
and may be that is why she knew that men would
be weak, and look
darker without the her.

She walks away with ease,
after serving life,
slips back to hot and sweaty kitchen,
for she knows,
the value of a clean knife.