Mum's Advice

You advised me to toil, let my mind whirl, and consume knowledge like daily bread.

And, as you say, your command is what I always followed.

You would tell me to go to dance classes, learn instruments, and play sports.

I would try and leave in every second moment.

Thinking all this is useless and feeling that

I should enjoy myself and be myself.

But little me never knew,

How in the future will the things I denied for

are the only things I need for my university application.

I would feel scared of not having enough credentials to enter it.

Little Me would wish that she should have heard from you, and now

She wouldn't be suffering.

It's too late, I say and I realise how your advice was the greatest.

It's you who lingers when all's said and done.

You will always stick with me and be my eternal sun, regardless.