I check every flash for you, mother.
Stare at all lights.
Hope it’s a ‘helo’.
Imagine it was you.
Why did you go?
Stay in touch, mother.
My phone notifies.
My eyes blink open.
Expecting you will say “Na”.
How you called me softly.
Mother, where are you?
Stay in touch, mother.
You said “school non-stop”.
I took all the ‘firsts’.
Wore the thick happy robes.
Your hug was absent that day.
You would’ve wanted to see, right?
Stay in touch, mother.
We made designed plans.
You had to pick the dress.
The four wheels were for you,
It didn’t taste like yours.
Why didn’t you tell me earlier?
Stay in touch, Mum
Sometimes I hear you loud.
Unconscious but alive I feel you.
That ‘proud of you” look is gold.
It builds mountain-high courage.
Who could deny your love?
Stay in touch, mother.
That tight hug still wraps me.
The healthy yumminess on my plate.
Melodious daily psalms resound deep.
Stitches on my torn jacket felt new.
Devotion prayers, who will lead?
Stay in touch, mother.
Honesty was a door principle.
Faithfulness meant a commitment to you.
Integrity wasn’t just a trait.
Selflessness is all I saw you do.
Who will tame the wails of your living DNA?
Stay in touch, Mummy.
Even as I hunger for your touch.
I feel your breath in my dancing heart.
Retrospections let me hear you again.
Introspection makes me do it right.
You cannot touch me I know.
But I am staying in touch with you, Mom.
This poem is a tribute to my beloved mother, Frida Imbole Maliva. I’m grateful for all you were in my life. Even after more than 25 years since you left this world, your memory remains vivid in my heart. I hold onto the love I have for you, Mom.
Bible verses to comfort those who are grieving
Isaiah 66:13: “As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you.”
Isaiah 49:15: “Can a mother forget her nursing child? Can she feel no love for the child she has borne?”
Proverbs 31:25: “She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come.”
Proverbs 31:28–29: “Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her: ‘Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.'”
Deuteronomy 6:6–7: “And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”
Proverbs 31:31: “Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.”
Psalm 139:13-14: “For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”
Genesis 3:20: “The man called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.”
1 Peter 3:4: “You should be known for the beauty that comes from within, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God.”
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