Thank you Mom for teaching me to Roar!
For knowing deep down in your bones
That inside you
Was embedded
A freedom
That needed to be let loose
And allowed to dance in the wind
Thank you Mom
For climbing the mountain
And standing at its peak
And roaring
Roaring
Roaring into the wind
Letting the wind hear your anguish and your sadness and your pain
Whilst we children giggled and tumbled and played in the bushes and amongst the rocks
And felt bashful about our weird mom roaring at the wind
Thank for you for teaching me to roar
It is embedded in my spirit
And I will never forget
The image of you, my mother, roaring into the wind
And seeing how the wind received you
And roared back
(written 09/08/2024 – Woman’s Day, South Africa)
