Penny's Poetry Blog's poem for Mother's Day:
Mother to Son, by Langton Hughes

Well, son, I’ll tell you
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up
[...]

(read by Viola Davis)

https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2023/05/mother-to-son-langston-hughes.html

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