This Place- A Poem For My Mother on Her Birthday

This Place.


This place.
This place so full of beauty.
This place that has accepted you.
This place with sea salt air to comfort your senses.
This place with sea fog so thick it enfolds you.
This place and its culture, so rich and so old.
It warms your heart,
Even when weather turns cold.
This place that has torn you,
Yet held you up high!
It weeps with you dearly, your time to go, nigh.
Like good friends you've become, supportive and comforting.
To wipe away tears in times of great suffering.
To raise you up highest, to make you to fly!
When joy is around, to happily cry.


This place.
It will miss you.


.....................................................................................................................................................


Some background: My family and I have lived in Japan for 19, almost 20, years. They are finally moving back to the states but we are all feeling extremely conflicted about it. This place has become our home. For my brother and I, it is ALL we have ever known. 


Please pray for a comforting stateside reception and for them to be happy at the new military base they will be moving to. 


Thanks.