Mama's Voice Never Changes Poem by Ludvig Von Himmelstein

Mom's voice never changes
And when we speak on the phone
She is still lecturing at college
And trying to get tenure
I'm a child of five
When we are in person
the voice and her face do not match up
But when we're on the phone
she advises this 5 year old
how to reign in my adult
20 something children
And it is more comfortable on the phone
where her voice somehow is immune
to the ravages of time
and we can take our ancestral places
me in my most youthful mind
and in the grand scheme of nature's felonies
is this such an awful crime?