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A Mother’s Plea
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Plumes engagées
A Mother’s Plea
À l’heure du tout à l’image et du buzz sans suite, «l’express» souhaite faire découvrir la plume de poètes, de chanteurs, d’écrivains et de tous ceux qui jettent leur âme sur le papier, et qui mettent en mots des réflexions profondes.
Soon I will be gone
Your father I will follow
My time has come
Life is so hollow
Him, will you look after?
Only these four walls he knows
A long way lies afar
Beyond this gate he never goes.
All of you are mine
For what I gave to you
You all grew fine
For what wasn’t given to him
Was beyond my means
Please, don’t blame him
It’s not fair by all means.
A ray of light wakes you up
He knows nor day nor night*
By gentle talk call him up
He hasn’t been blessed with sight
Joys and sorrow you have, share with him,
he is kind
Curse him not the brother you have
He’s also part of you
All of you are of mankind.
Said the son
“Ô brothers and sisters of mine
Fate has befallen upon me
of no choice of mine
Your voices I know, your wishes I feel
A glimpse of you I’ve never had
What else is left for me?
To your wills and wishes I will abide
Against wind and rain let me hide
For a mug of tea, a morsel of bread
and the warmth of a bed
Don’t cast me aside, please keep me
by your side.”
Bio
■ Dr Mala Modun-Bissessur.
Médecin généraliste ayant travaillé en Europe et au Moyen-Orient, et ex-fonctionnaire du service hospitalier à Maurice, elle est consciente de la souffrance qui afflige à plusieurs niveaux des innocents, à qui, hélas, elle ne peut qu’offrir ses prières.
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