How Many Times

How many diapers have I changed?
   How many bottles given?
How many tears have I dried,
   Or prayers called up to Heaven?
How many nights at bedsides sat,
   To wipe a fevered brow?
How many scrapes or bruises kissed,
   And said,"there it is better now."

How many school events attended?
   With pride, boasted "that's my child"
How many times did I hope and pray,
   They would not follow the crowd so wild?
Now they are grown and gone away,
   Their Dad is no longer here.
God chose to take him years ago
    So I live with lonely tears.

How many times as I sit alone
    Feeling rejected,abandoned, and blue,
I look back on those long-gone years
    Just wondering what I should do,
I realize that times have changed,
    In this electronic revolution.
No time to remember an old mothers love,
    Or help to find a solution.

No time to pick up the telephone,
   "Hi Mom, how are you today?"
"Is there anything you need from town 
    I'll bring it on my way".
"Oh, by the way Mom, I miss you,
    And just want you to know
For all you've done thru all these years,
    I'll always love you so."

How many times I dream this dream,
    As I sit in my old rocking chair.
How many times I question, but fail.
    THE ANSWER I JUST do not hear.