Happy Mother’s Day…

Wishing all the readers of Beyond Barriers… a very “Happy Mother’s Day”.

This post carries the very first poem I wrote in my life, “Mother, my Mother”. And the first person to whom I showed it and dedicated it, was my own mother and after reading, she failed to control her emotions that day.

Now today, I take the opportunity on this special occasion to share it with all of you.

Mother, my Mother…

When I was a wandering soul, dear mother,
You offered me the holy gift of birth on this Earth

Those months when I lived in you, dear mother,
You generously shared me your breath and blood.

The day I got introduced to this World, dear mother,
You took me in arms and put me close to your heart

With your first kiss on my tiny forehead, dear mother,
You turned all those curvy fate lines I had into smooth ones

In the garden we sat during the spring season, dear mother,
You showed me how the flower proposes marriage to the butterfly

When the domestic chores demanded your attention, dear mother,
You spent the whole day caring, tickling, laughing and playing with me

While I learnt my first multiplication table at school, dear mother,
You forgot to even comb your hair and pondered about my life, my future

When I lied motionless on the bed with high fever, dear mother,
You skipped your meals and sleep to serve me all along the day and night

Unlike other woman of your age who desire for riches, dear mother,
You always kept your life simple, serene, self-effacing and sacrificing for me

As a stream of blood oozed incessantly out of my first wound, dear mother,
You shed tears ceaselessly while tying the bandage and felt my pain as yours

Now, bless me with the opportunity to worship you, my dear own mother,
I shall collect the purest drops of the morning dew to wash your ever kind feet

As every cell in my body offers prayers and salutations to you, dear mother,
I shall pluck the first bloomed flower of the spring and decorate your holy feet

And finally, If God grants me the biggest wish of my lifetime, dear mother,
I pray that for every birth on this Earth, you are the mother and I am your child