Poems - Sheriff G Ali Foundation

MY MOTHER'S SON

To My Mom, 1923-2001

My Mom whom I loved, I did not really know
For it was destiny, that said, I must go
I was sent to help others who needed me
That distant journey, separated me and she
So for thirty years, my life was dismayed
God's mysteries, I finally returned to where I played
In the last days of her sojourner's life
She told me she was my father's loving wife
Though her goals and dreams she knew were never met
She assured me, of her life, she had no regret
Her faith in God to go to the world's unknown
Was her assurance that she would never be alone
The next journey she knew, would have no tears
With confidence, she said, there were no fears
So her amazing and most sudden death
Helped me to understand her the best
Though her life is surely over and done
Forever I say, I love you, I love you, Mom...