A Real Mother

She felt it on her shoulders When her husband lost his sight Many school fees to pay Much food to feed children She was just an apprentice nurse Working at the government hospital In Harper city, Maryland county She woke up very early Daily walk to her place of work She retire at night in her small shop She makes sure her children studied But her tears were invisible She couldn’t afford receiving her salary The storms of school fees and book swallow it She work all through her years Preparing her children for brighter future The dark hand of civil war surface When parents ran without their children Children without their parents Husbands without their wives And wives without their husband But she kept her family In the midst of terror and tension When human bodies, human skull, Human bones lied along the roadside She escapes with her husband into exile She is a real mother Who kept her vow deep within her heart As a treasure that couldn’t be stolen