Mama's Boy

Mother to Son

                  by:  Langston 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,
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.

 Son to Mother

I knows that, Mama….

I really do.

Because I’ve been watch’n,

Look’n real careful like.  

I’s come to see that where

You’s a going, is the same place,

That I want to be,

Because you’re my Mama, and

There ain’t place you’s a going,

That I won’t be right behind you.  

Life’s tough, no questioning that.

But Mama, there ain’t no life without

You, yes’m—you.