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This is an opportunity to write a
letter to my mother not because I cannot write it on another day, but because
today being mothering Sunday, marks an eminent day making the wordings of my
letter auspicious carrying a meaning that no other day will give it.
Today, the world celebrates
mothers who have moulded lives and fulfilled destinies. I have seen words and
poems dedicated to mothers that have brought me to earth and appreciate more
the immeasurable roles of our mothers. Accolades have championed expressions
that have flown from the hearts of many like the ocean. Some have been utterly
silent not inability to express but proving that some feelings better left
unsaid.
So forgive my lack of coherence
of thoughts if I fall short of succinctly addressing how much my mother means
to me. I probably will never be able to capture in mere words the incredibly
undiluted love of mothers for us neither will I ever be able to share the
immensity of my mother’s love for me, which I am most unqualified for.
Dear mama – in the voice of 2pac,
I only want to appreciate you and in my minute way showing that I will forever be
indebted to your magnanimous love, which you have shown us right from the
moment you conceived us. You nursed us from the womb and never took your eyes
off us. Because of us, you stayed up nights without ceasing; you are our
indefatigable model who never is weary of attending to our every need.
I know we will never repay your
unfathomable love for us through your relentless guidance and protection. For our sake, you gave up your all just to train us in the way we should grow. At
those times, we got stubborn; you chased the madness out of our hearts with ‘omo-rogun’ wooden stick and drew us
close to you with your left hand. You would provide our every need through your
toils and we never lack even when it is obvious you cannot afford our
desires, or at your detriment, you gave us the world and told us it is our
oyster.
Dear mother, love of our hearts,
healer of our pains. Whenever the world pushed us down, you not only encouraged
us but also taught us to stand firmly on our feet looking the world in the eyes
and never making an enemy of it. You taught us to prove the world wrong and
never accept impossibility. With you, I found strength to soar higher than the
eagles above the sun. Today, I stand with my heads high, chest pushed out
facing what the world throws at me because I am everything you made me.
Truly, you are my earthly God. I
know this because the Lord must have taken his very best to make you, as you
are everything in his similitude. You never gave up on me, when I feel
rejected, and dejected, you welcome me warmly. Only a masterpiece of God must
have the ability to love me in my lowest moments, to flaunt me at my most unworthy
state. You love me steadfastly and teach me the secrets of living. It
overwhelms me when you carter for me after I hurt you with my self-indulgence.
Mama I want you to know that you
are my treasure, the one that brings me closer to God. You are the one that I
adore. Thank you for making my dreams your aspirations. You sacrificed
everything to make me achieve my goals and you supported me through it. Now, the
times for you to relax watching me give you the world that you made real.
Thank you for all the sacrifices,
for all the times you hid your tears to give us joy, the times you hid your
disappointments to give us hope, those days you hid your pains to give us
strength and those times you hid your sadness for our joy. We say to you that
with God on our side, we will share many days to make you proud and fill you
with enormous contentment.
Thank you, maami.
Let me also use this medium to
spare a thought for those whose mothers called to heaven thus transcended state
of being human to angels.
ADEKANYE ADEYINKA .O.
