-Dr. Mustafa Kamal

Weeks go by fast, months one by one,

Mother’s Day comes around, it is so fine.

Don’t need a date or time to celebrate my mother,

She lives in my dreams, around her no longer I can gather.

Everything she had she gave me to grow,

Love, affection and warmth that naturally flow.

Don’t you ever leave me mom, I used to say

Find me in the stars, she would say, at the end of the day.

I will wait for you, don’t worry my child

At the Heavens’ gate with God, I don’t mind.

To all the mothers in the world, living or dead,

With respect and admiration, I bow my head.

(Poet: Dr. Mustafa Kamal, Professor Emeritus, Frisco, Texas)