Sunday, May 11, 2008

Happy Mother's Day!


How many minutes or hours did your mother have to push before you came out busting through the birth canal? Loud screams and curses were pronounced to dissipate the ongoing pain. You were there wrapped in a towel in the end still humid from the blood bath you unwillingly had to take. Perhaps you weren’t even born in a hospital with all the modern tools and technology. Your head could still be shaped like an egg partly because you had to be forcefully evicted from her uterus by a midwife. Your mother or should I say our mothers are truly incredible beings. Just imagine carrying us for nine months and still carrying some of us through the ages always listening, advising, and other times understanding us like no other person on this planet.
We were born that day bringing with us a pile of concerns, but there were to be no reasons to worry for our mothers would be there to care and provide for us all that was necessary to keep us well and healthy. No matter what time of the day or night your nipple had to be ready or your bottle had to be warm. Maybe your diaper had to be changed or you had to be rushed to the hospital with an abnormal temperature. Heck! The black bags under your mother’s eye can today testify for all the pain and suffering many of us have put them through.
The pain a mother bares for her offspring can be everlasting or it can be easily appeased by hugs and kisses, words of encouragement, perhaps a two minute phone call or a fast visit. Mothers are all good, but we must remember that great mothers will always be rare. Angels from above that once fell to procreate the earth still move like robot and with love pollinate the air. We all know mothers are just beings made of a substance that won’t ever be worn down, and the gift they have given us is dignified of our awareness and our gratitude. Then why not give them the respect they deserve, drape them with kisses and show them we care? It’s far better to start now for there is nothing to do for them once they are gone. Remember, twenty thousand roses might not bring her as much happiness as seeing your face on her very special day…

©Daniell Fedron May 10, 2008

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