Dehai

" In Celebration of Mother's Day"

Dear Eve!!!
Of the garden 
Of Eden.
How you are adorned
And symbolized
As a mother nature.
You are called affectionately
"Adeye, 'maye,
Mommy, Mamaye!
To Kunama folks
In their sayings and songs
"The earth is the mother
The sky is the father"
Whose an abundance of rain
Brings forth....
A Plenty of grain.
But some once abused 
Your sacred name
By claiming a mother tongue
By waging unjust wars
In the name of a mother land
A mark of an appeal to emotion
Among misguided nations.
Mother! Oh mother!
It is your day and holy 
Let it be .....
JOLLY!!!

Haile