THE PEOPLE WHO HVE MADE AN IMPACT IN MY LIFE

when i think of people who have made an impact in my life i think of my mother, my aunts in general my wholoe family and friends.... we say blood is thicker than water in this case i have to agree with who ever came up with such a concept. When i think family i think of my mum she is the most influencial person in my life. through her i have leant that life is what you make it and we are the masters of our on destiny. The future is in our hands and we decide what we wanna be and that nothing can beat a detrmined soul. My mum has done it all she has been able to show me that a woman can be strong. looking at what she has done. she is a single mother but she is able to provide for us i do thank God for her in my life. the poem below is dedicated to her.

What I Learned From My Mother

BY JULIA KASDORF

I learned from my mother how to love

the living, to have plenty of vases on hand

in case you have to rush to the hospital

with peonies cut from the lawn, black ants

still stuck to the buds. I learned to save jars

large enough to hold fruit salad for a whole

grieving household, to cube home-canned pears

and peaches, to slice through maroon grape skins

and flick out the sexual seeds with a knife point.

I learned to attend viewings even if I didn’t know

the deceased, to press the moist hands

of the living, to look in their eyes and offer

sympathy, as though I understood loss even then.

I learned that whatever we say means nothing,

what anyone will remember is that we came.

I learned to believe I had the power to ease

awful pains materially like an angel.

Like a doctor, I learned to create

from another’s suffering my own usefulness, and once

you know how to do this, you can never refuse.

To every house you enter, you must offer

healing: a chocolate cake you baked yourself,

the blessing of your voice, your chaste touch.