Dear Ma
The sound of a plane that's come to landing And in a nearly empty room of arrivals I find myself standing The electronic board lights up and tells me the passengers are disembarking And I'm reminded of a feeling of longing and wanting To embrace a woman my whole life I've been loving In mere minutes, that once empty hall is filled with a hundred eager eyes And in a myriad of faces, I catch hers And my once empty heart is filled with a hundred fireflies I held her hand, soft as creamy butter, as the perfect mold of dough And I wondered where did all those 50 something years go And where she managed to draw the strength to combat her sorrow Being away from her family to fight the war waged for a bright tomorrow I look at her face, artificially whitened from years of radiation yet filled with a youthful shine Her worries and doubts she held clandestine Replaced it with courage, so a good education would be mine A...