This poem was written in response to the news reports about the mothers that sacrificed themselves to protect their babies. We have translated two such reports:
If You Live Through This, Please Remember that I Love You
Young mother breastfed baby as she lay dying in the rubble
From: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4759de440100988j.html
An Angel to a mother
Please follow me, a mother's love has opened the door to Heaven, with her back and her breast
Your life against the strong wind, the white candle left behind would inherit your love,
lighting another place of warmness in the world.
Please don't be sad, please don't cry, even if you couldn't stay with him
for the whole night; you are still the shining star leading him
through the darkness to the break of dawn.
No matter how far it is, please believe in this candle, white and
burning bright, this is the most precious gift from the Pandora's box
and from the Grim Reaper.
Scythes unstained with blood, wings no longer white, Grim Reaper has taken many lives with his scythe,
those alive have become the angels pure, those with love would encourage life to rise from the misery.
Lack of time sealed the love in blood, in bone, in the little one's life. It is not only light that glows in the dark.
The little heart beats, like the flowers in greenhouse. My whole love
is around you, my child.
You stopped walking; you must be grieved by life's hard road,
the mountains he'll scale, and the thorns he'll walk upon.
But you are the most shining star for her, remember? When he falls in
dark, when he loses himself, my child, he will ask you for help,
he will smile for your glory.
Go ahead! Let me take you to the heaven; let me grant you the angel wings.
So please, please keep watching him with your endless love and
your love that could never be taken
"My dear baby, if you live through this, please remember that I love you.”
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The above story is translated by some volunteers at
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