Wishes For My Mother
I wish you to have 20/20 vision. It has been 30 years since you lost the sight on your left eye, it just died the doctors said, even after a cornea transplant it didn’t last long for it had exhausted itself from the nights you sit under the dull yellow light of the lamp sewing native slippers which you sell to help with our family’s expenses because dad’s salary was just not enough to feed seven children. Your world became bleak and almost formless because you always insisted that food should not be a luxury in our house but a blessing that is deprived to none.
I wish you a shopping spree of your heart’s content. You loved going to the mall, you loved beautiful things, shoes, bags and dresses but you never got what you wanted you only got what you needed because buying cheap clothes and shoes would mean that you can say the words that you always say to each and every one of my brothers and sisters “Go ahead choose whatever you like!” You said the shouts of joy coming from our mouths were treasures enough to fill any desires of your heart.
I wish you a luxurious beauty treatment. Your face is laced not only with lines of old age but etched on its rugged surface are the remnants of every feeling that face has undergone for us: joy, worry, tension, anxiety, hope and love. I wish for these lines to vanish because I want the world to see this beautiful face that you had given up, forsaken, and sacrificed so that your children might never ever feel alone in this world.
Thank you mama for all you have been through for us and on this day, Mother’s day, a day to remember all mothers, I wish that you may be granted all these wishes and finally, I have one last wish, my wish is that you may know that this is how I feel, that this is the truth, from the words of a famous poet E.E. Cummings “ I carry your heart, I carry it in my heart.”
Comments
A very heart touching tribute to MOTHER. May she be blessed with all blessings of God.
@Samuel It is the least I can do for all her efforts, to remember her goodness. Thank you for passing by, I value your comment. :)
@Expector Smith Yes it is desirable to have such a mother. I am blessed as you! :)
@Tara I like nothing more than to express my gratitude to my mom and to mothers everywhere thank you for appreciating my efforts on this! :)
@Lady Anne Thank you for providing the exact word about my experience with my mom- miracle! I am grateful! :)
You have written such a heartfelt tribute about your mom. I loved all of the stories you told, and I'm so impressed with your writing, Alice! Thanks for contributing to our Mother's Day collection.
Ohhh.......this blog can't be read without tearing up. Moms are great indeed. Your mom is a super mom.
I am short of descriptions to type. How can I? Moms are indescribable. They are simply part of the miracle sent from heaven above. I salute your mom, Alice!
Alice, It's beautiful that you remember your mother's effort for you, she's a great mother. God bless you. Thanks for sharing.
Excellent! What could be more desirable than this for a mother?
Dear Setareh we are all indebted to this woman who is our mother and this few words of gratitude comes from my experience of her. Thank you for seeing the beauty in my words. :)
@Alex: Thank you for this appreciation of this woman who has won my heart as well.:)
Thank you Onee for your wish that mine be granted. :)
Dear Alice you have writen so beautifully. Specially the part about her beautiful face. thanks for sharing. God bless your mother.
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