A Letter To My Mother

From dusk to dawn Sunrise to sundown This I will never forget Your kisses that always left me in a comfort And a bliss that no grief could ever secrete A mile-wide-smile and sweet That never deserted your cheeks Your submissiveness When my stomach would rumble How you would enable my aptitudes And change my ill attitudes And fashion my self-esteem Not to be the next awaited victim Under any state of affairs You reduced yourself down to zero But to me you were still a hero Jointly we went outdoors and out And more often than not We would go up the hills And lean idly upon the walls You were my physician Upon all signs of hypochondria You were a mother superior You did the whole in a real thrill You were to me mother-of-pearl People said, "too much sweet cloys" But your love to me grew bold in all ways Now and then I never thought Life could bring in me a heart-strife And put a blot of blood on my ecstasy I recall one day I stood neighboring you With my two hands akimbo It was the nightfall of the 16th July My tongue had stranded on its pivots My mouth was kept mum So were my tryouts To keep you from shutting those eyes I asked myself so many whys I stretched my eyes to see if it was a lie Only to hurt them and find I couldn't deny That I was left a flag without a pole And like a shoe without a sole Or like a worker denied a dole In my heart there was now a hole Life turned a wound that hurt I got myself caught up in a mesh Like a fishbone stuck in my throat I never thought Life could be so dicey I was blind at the outset now I see This life will never set me free In every breath I'll pay a huge fee For my blameworthy breakthroughs Still death split people into twos The worldly and the heavenly The lonely and the heavenly Mothers gone, children left odd socks Little strokes fell great oaks In my life time and hereafter As long as eyes can see, mouths can utter From side to another, below to above There has never been a heartfelt love Like yours to me Or whose love that can be?