🌸遊子吟🌸

    周神耀心靈小菜園系列- 137

    慈母手中線 遊子身上衣

    臨行密密縫 意恐遲遲歸

    誰言寸草心 報得三春暉

                                            孟郊

On the new cloak perchance 

I see her nimble little hands, 

Needles and threads dancing

Fast on her seamstress fingers.

My departure came so sudden 

That she rushed to sew and knit

Late into the night a garment new.

Ready for her son’s trip tomorrow.

Ah back home soon her words are few.

I search my soul and ask myself 

How much does a mother’s love worth ? 

A child couldn’t even come up with anything that matches one 

Scintilla tiny bit of hers!❤️

 ⁃ translated by Phil 周 on Mother’s Day 2025