This poem expresses love and appreciation for the author's grandmothers on Mother's Day. It describes how grandmothers shape who people become through their sense of adventure, beauty, play, compassion, love and other qualities, passing down wisdom from previous generations and influencing the futures of their grandchildren. The poem states that grandmothers rule the world through teaching their grandchildren how to be, who to be, and where they belong, with their successes becoming the grandchildren's future.