A garden plot’s a healing spot
Just how I do not know,
But as I watched my mother work
Her eyes just told me so.
When she was troubled I could tell.
She’d take her spade and go
To her own private piece of earth
And dig it row by row;
And then she’d kneel and take the soil
To sift it here and there,
Talking softy as she worked
Perhaps it was a prayer.
A garden’s plot a healing spot
I know the feel of sod,
Was my dear Mother’s way to say,
“I’ve touched a bit of God.”