The delicate petals fall silently   Forming a cherry blossom carpet   They dance in the wind like rose-petal coloured snowflakes   The mist falls and muffles all sound   And as I look up I see my mother among the Sakura      The dawn approaches but the moon remains   Unlike my thoughts of you, invisble but always with me   Through the passing seasons the vision of you waxes and wanes   I wonder what you are felling now   I look up and see your face in the moonlit night      With the deepest love and sincerity    I offer flowers for your words    This poem for my thoughts of you   And this voice for your life      Man is born, grows up, learns of love, becomes an adult   Looks for love, takes a vow, creates life, becomes a parent   Grows old, grows wiser, ends life and returns to the earth      But before that      With deepest love and sincerity    I offer flowers for your words    This poem for my thoughts of you   Flower petals dancing in the wind   And morning moon shining in the sky   Please carry this voice to my mother   With love