Last year, when I was reinstated in my work. I borrowed three kinds of books namely: ” The Evolution of Dances, English Grammar for Filipinos and Prose and Poems. As I scan the books, I didn’t regret of borrowing it for it was really full of information and useful specially in my field of teaching.
When I flip the pages of the prose and poem book, I was struck with this poem. I am dying to share this to all of you for it is really a nice poem which you can get a moral lesson.
Here it is:
Ballad of a Mother’s Heart
The night was dark,
For the moon was young,
And the Stars were asleep and rare,
The clouds were thick,
Yet Youth went out,
To see his Maiden fair.
Dear one,
he pleaded as he knelt before her feet in tears.
My love is true,
Why you have kept me waiting all this years?
The maiden looked at him.
Unmoved it seemed,
And whispered low.
Persistent Youth,
You have to prove by deeds,
Your love is true.
“There’s not a thing
I haven’t do for you,Beloved” said he.
“Then, go.” said she. “To your mother dear,
And bring her heart to me.
Without another word,
Youth left and went to his mother dear.
He opened her breast and took her HEART!
But he did not shed a tear.
Then back to his Maiden fair,
He run unmindful of the rain.
But his feet slipped, And he fell down,
And load, he groan with pain!
And then, he held the prize,
That would win his Maiden’s hands.
But he thought of his mother dear,
So kind,so sweet,so fond
But then,
he heard a voice!
Not from his lips,
But all apart!
“Get up” it said.
“Are you hurt,Child?”
It was his mother’s heart
The ballad of a Mother’s heart.
What do you think is the moral lesson of this poem? Is this possible? Do you know someone who is fight back to their parents just to please their love ones?
Sharing of an ideas are welcome.
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