4pm, forever

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I have been looking for a mother's love
in all the wrong places 

It is not back there 
in an impossible past 

It is not out there 
in the wide wondrous world 

It is not up there 
waiting in some heaven 

It is here at the school gates 
every single day at 4pm 
in the smile of my daughter 
who is so ecstatic to see me