Illustration: Dong Hong Kui
Although we know that birth, old age, sickness and death are the rules, we can fully understand the pain of loss and separation when our own parents die.
In over 50 years as my mother’s child, I have never given her a rose. He didn’t put a rose on her grave until she was lying quietly on the ground.
1. For the last 85 years, she lives completely with her husband, children, grandchildren and relatives. For both the motherland and the revolution, he contributed a part of his efforts.
Ben Kat, from the southwest, after passing through many places to earn a living, my parents chose Dong Xoi as their second hometown. As a place to live and also as a place to lie down.
For 85 years in the world, mom and dad are busy, doing business and raising eight children who have grown up, accomplished, well educated, have stable careers, established families. However, my parents didn’t have a day to rest until they could, their backs arched and their knees tired. Throughout their lives, they protected, sacrificed, and cared for their cubs, but never took care of themselves, other than the willingness of their children to accept, love, and care for each other. Didn’t ask for anything. Live happily with your small family.
A mother often compares her cheeks to a hen who spreads her wings, sits in a flock, and shelters her chicks during a storm.
As a mom twice, I understand the saying “carry heavy, give birth painfully”. But my pain is nothing compared to my mother giving birth ten times, teaching and raising eight children. In wartime, it is dangerous, prison; In peacetime, this toil and hardship accompanied the country during a period of healing from the wounds of war. When the economy is temporarily stagnant, my mother reminds my parents to go on trips and insists on not going. All are saving and saving for their children and grandchildren.
We grew up, each of us headed in different directions, for work, for our families, and we kept delaying our appointments whenever my mom reminded me to come. Especially because of the pandemic in the last three years, this was the time when my parents’ health deteriorated rapidly. So that when mother is gone forever, we will quickly return to our father and mother when they are old, weak eyes, trembling legs, not able to take care of them every day, especially in the days when mother The reasons for COVID are isolated.
2. It seems that the pain is beyond limits and becomes numb. I didn’t fall as I thought. Or thanks to a “threat” from a friend: “You shouldn’t be weak, if you faint, the whole family will be like you, domino syndrome”. Perhaps thanks to that, the family peacefully carried her to her final resting place.
Mother! It is more than 50 years old, but I do not accept orphanage. I want a father and a mother. are you too greedy? Whenever there’s a funny story, call your friends to share. But when I have a sad story, I just want to run to my mom, I don’t dare to tell her, but just being next to you I feel comforted, patted, calmed down is awaited. Are you very selfish?
Many people in Dong Ziyi are familiar with the image of their mother, so how can we forget. Mother cycles to sell cakes every day. It breaks my heart to see my mother riding her bicycle in the middle of the day in the hot sun or in the pouring rain. But my mother kept tightening her belt to squeeze and collect for the kids. Take care of this baby, a car, another apartment, take care of the kids in America when they get old and come back to Vietnam to have a place to call home.
Several decades passed like this, he did not leave any market. When she could not ride the bike, she would ride the bike across the street and sell the new wheels. I myself always want to be active and not disturb my children and grandchildren. Mom can’t go to school, so she wants her kids to have lots of things to do. Mother grew up in poverty, so she wanted her children to be complete. Mother taught: “Stay in the city”, “I eat it all, people eat it”; “Hungry for the taste of clean tears”…
Mother is really gone now. An energetic female who has gone through many ups and downs in life, lost in battle and made sacrifices like her mother, can now rest in peace after battling illness and waiting for the return of her cubs.
In over 50 years as my mother’s child, I have never given her a rose. He didn’t put a rose on her grave until she was lying quietly on the ground.
You know, whenever I get out of work, drive home, and tear up. Panicking in the middle of the night, helpless, because there is no mother.
“Tears are flowing” 85 years of life, how many times have you cried because one has fever, other has cough, especially when your 10 months old sister is no more due to pneumonia. My mother was in pain and had to leave the country to work elsewhere to get some rest. Then she cried seeing her five daughters walking behind their husbands, they didn’t know how husband and wife lived in a foreign land, whether there was peace there or not…
We are very happy and proud to be the children of our parents. We apologize to you for what we could not pay, for what upset you.
Mother is really gone now, Mother! These narrative lines are like words of repentance, like an incense stick and like a white rose, I offer my cheeks in the Wu Lan season.
If there is a next life, I would like to be your child, continuing what I have not done for my dear mother! May you rest in peace for eternity!
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