(11:24pm
23rd Aug 2009... editted 2011)
When you're born into this world…
You get to possess and have alota stuff and people in your
life.
Of the people…
There’s a particular set... that are unique.
Are irreplaceable.
Are nonpareil— PARENTS!!
As aspiring parents and present progenies we may have
reservations.
(The know-it-all syndrome)
But… The truth is the truth is the truth!
You may be ‘fortunate’ enough to have many friends, accomplices,
siblings,
be polygamous (-androus) and bring forth life in varying gender, form,
shape,
and size—children… you call your own.
(Notice the multiplicity, replacability, and transferability)
However…
That one set of parents is all you get— One mom. One dad.
Be you of the fortunate few that realize this and embrace
them and give them their due.
Be you even luckiest if you never needed a reminder/epiphany
to point.
Cuz at the end of the day you can never love them and have
their best of best interest at heart the way they do you.
Tell me if that’s transferable, replaceable, or multiplicable??!?
A mother is basically the only being whom you could kill
intentionally, have her resurrected and I’m sure she’d say— "I forgive you, I’m
sure it was a mistake..."
You do it again and she’d repeat the same, and again,
and again and again.
BOTTOMLINE- when it comes to doing right by
the world and doing okay by your parents... Only the way of God should be a deterring
factor.
It’s
nonnegotiable!
I can choose U, U, U,
and U over U, U, U, and U.
But not parents.
“A
flower cannot choose where it blossoms neither can a child choose its parents.”
“From the day
they've met—
consummated
conceived—
A Me
Named this Me
and
Blessed that Me
The deed
“Written by a ‘perfect’
son
Of/and about ‘imperfect’
parents
In a ‘perfect’ world
During an ‘perfect’
era
In imperfect
words
Hoping—
To deliver a perfect message— clear”
~I A Saeed~
Dedicated to my
beautiful Mother and all the parents (and grandparents) we’ve lost.
May all their
transgressions, big and small, be forgiven by the Almighty.
And may there be
naught to cause them worry or sorrow.
May their gentle and
generous souls find eternal and
Blissful peace.
Ameen
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| "Allahuma Ghaffirha Warrham'ha Wa affi'iha wa affu'anha..." |
© I A Saeed 2011
