Expressions of Love

I need no reminder
that I am the mother
of your children, nor
my memory nudged of
all the years that 
have passed since
that long-ago time
when we, scarce out
of our own childhoods
knew that our lives
would be spent in this
tandem of companionship
where you smile me into
happiness and transport
me to comfort, by my
side, indefatigable
in your many, varied
expressions of love.