Μαμά. Mother

Mother

You live in pain
but you manage to teach us courage.
You hide yourself and cry
So your sorrow can not affect
Our innoscent smile
and loud laughters.

You sacrifice anything you have
to provide us with everything we need.
You close your eyes
and lose yourself to your own unique world,
to avoid even for a while
the cruel real one
that fights against you.
But you fight back though.
For you, but mostly for us,
so we can manage to be a part
of this society and not end up in the margins of it.

You step aside for us to move ahead
even though that doesn't benefit you.

You are the safety net
that breaks our fall
and the hand that
will catch and pick us up again.

You took a risk that
lasts a lifetime
and you play every role
that is required in this malicious
play of life
so we can be taught how to survive
and live with dignity.

And as you keep moving on,
you hold underneath your tongue
a soundless groan of pride
as you still carry onto
your sore shoulders
your momentous title:

MOTHER