I hear my mother crying This is strange I have never heard her crying Her cry sounds so sweet to my ears She does not speak She does not have to say anything I understand her without words But I say to her Mammy Look at the fields and the forests The huge mountains The enormous rivers The high sky The big oceans Hear how they are rejoicing toward you They see you now They speak to you You are in them They are in you Now I see that my mother is smiling Smiling and crying And her cry is so sweet So wonderful So pleasing to the ears It is emanated from the trees, the fields From the huge mountains From the enormous rivers which go to the sea The sea of longing which is never full
