For Mom

With love...

In the Middle East, Mother's Day is celebrated on 21 March. I created this particular card for my mom on seeing Friday Magazine's posting on what everyone is doing for their moms. I painted this card and wrote this poem for her. While I was in the process of creation I had my daughter in mind too. I was thinking of my lil one who would obviously travel through these phases 'haps with or without the same mindset. As of now, I feel she does take on me as far as the temperament is concerned.

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out here & everywhere...

'Mother' was mentioned (sans poem) in the Friday magazine by Gulf News on 9 Mar. Too excited!!!!!!

Mother

I have always loved you Mom

Even when I fought inside you

To get out to this world to see the myriad hue

To be free and finally unfettered.

I have always loved you Mom

Even when I ran through the labyrinths

To escape the surrounded walls

Of my childhood inconveniences.

I have always loved you Mom

Even when I said “I hate you!”

Peers seized me in their turbulent current,

Fearing to be anchored instead.

I have always loved you Mom

Even when I fell in a tacit love

The sound of your wrenching heart resonated within

Letting away the love I may never find.

I have always loved you Mom

Even when I had to depart

Miles away, I had never felt so homesick!

I long to be close to you.

I have always loved you Mom

Even though I dared not admit it

You never failed to have faith in me

Never did I fail to trust you.

Now that I am a Mother

My daughter whispers, “I hate you Mom,

For all the things that you don’t let me do!”

I know she’ll always love me too.

by Deepa Gopal Sunil

I am linking it up to Colours Dekor's Weekly Story and Artists in Blogland. The theme for the month for the latter is Passion & I thought this would really suit it. Love for mom, love for daughter is a life's passion in a way, for me personally speaking...and to recreate it through the medium I am passionate about also speaks in itself, I hope :)

I am also linking it up to Paint Party Friday (PPF) for the very first time as I had been longing to join them for a very long time.

and

for the topic 'Shelter' - Illustration Friday.