Mother to Son
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,
And places with no carpet on the floor ---
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So, boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps.
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now ---
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
SUMMARY: In the first line, a mother is talking to her son about a life lesson.
ReplyDeleteMORAL: We can learn from the poem that life can be hard, but we have to strive.
ANALYSIS: In the second line of the poem, the poet uses the metaphor of a crystal stair to represent the difficult "climb" of life.