dia de madre

Mamasita J

 

a cardinal, a robin, a cowbird, a blue Jay,

a redwing black bird and a turtle dove

are orchestrating your song for today

they’re rehearsing mamasita’s lullaby

for mamasita day
 

they’re just outside my window

recalling your favorite tune

you know the one in the morning you’d sing

while the tiny rainbows glittered inside the dew
 

I vividly remember as a little child

with my hermanos and hermana

gathering, holding hands looking outside

the window as the day begins. you’d tell us

if one sings la cancion ‘esta mananita’

the morning the sun would rise joyously,

the birds would sing its welcome

and you were always right
 

so today, for you mamasita, with the

back up choir of robins and sparrows

and all their other amigos and even

some ground squirrels chiming in

i sing ‘esta mananita’ to celebrate and honor

you forwithout you my life would not be
 

con muchisimo amor, mamasita,

con los angelitos donde estas hoy

te mando mi coracon, todo mi amor
 

 

tu hijo, nene