My mother

One evening,                                                                                                      the sky was dark,                                                                                             a sign of heavy rain,                                                                                            a sudden, bright flash of lightning,                                                             that face looks familiar to me,                                                           memory? or remembrance?,                                                                             it disappears with lightning speed,                                                               a familiar face,                                                                                          well-known fragrance,                                                                                    will the lightning not come again?,                                                              will see that face again?,                                                                              who could it be?,                                                                                                     her face likes the moon,                                                                                a merciful gaze,                                                                                             lips that are eager to say something,                                                        widely spaced eye brows,                                                                           true signs of a long -term relationship,                                                      her face is an unsolved mystery,                                                                    a joy that cannot be explained,                                                                    eyes that make you want to see,                                                             surely,she is my mother.
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