A poem in english from the Malagasy poet Rufin RANDRIANARIVELO.

The death.
She has uprooted
My mother's life
She has pulled out
Her breath of life
Her flower's perfume
That she has let down
Into the empty space

The death has uprooted too
Her smile's petal
Her pain's flowers
Her souvenir's thorn
Her joy's leaf and
Her existence'stem...

Only we have keeped in our heart
Her maternal love's root
And nothing else
Nothing no more

Rufin RANDRIANARIVELO.

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