David Schwartz

Mohegan Lake, NY, USA

Occupations: Newspaper Carrier, Clerk, Machinist, Letter-Carrier
Scholastics: High school graduate/academic course; Mt. Saint Vincent, Riverdale, NY; Mercy College, Yorktown Heights, NY--majoring in American History
Military Service: Enlisted in Signal Corps US Army--Tech 5th grade; Served in the European Theater of Operations in WWII, discharged in 1945
Marital Status: Married in 1952 for 23 years; we have one boy and one girl; divorced in 1976; remarried in 1988 and still married
Avocations: I read 4 newspapers daily. I write poetry and short stories. I am a philatelist, a coin and rock collector.

A Mother's Love

It is the saddest thing to be without a caring mother,
For a love that transcends time in all things or another,
Caring, nourishing, patience to a lonely frightened child,
Setting you on an honest, correct path letting you not to be wild,
A mother's caress, cuddling a babe in her open arms,
It is one of life's blessings to be cherished by her maternal charms,
A mother's love is the greatest love on this eternal earth,
For Tis a mother who brought you into this world by birth,
We can ignore her, yell at her, and curse the day we were born,
For when she is gone we look for love and guidance so forlorn,
Memories so sweet and tender of her love so dear,
But it's gone forever, her memory for us is not very clear,
We grow old and frail in our life's span,
It is God's wish to give us a mother, for it is his plan.