To Mother Teresa

Great mother of benevolent dress,

you decorated

and protected

a poor orphan,

the miserable one,

with bluish border

of your angelic, cotton sari*.

 

Oh, mother Earth of sunny crust,

your womb hasn't been

ever closed

for all children who have been nurtured

by a miserly portion

of the peasant spoon.

 

Oh, you fruitful Earth,

diverse in weaving,

all of us,

from Skopje to Kalkuta,

even before you,

have chosen your unselfish breast.

Selman Repišti

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*sari "traditional clothing of the Hindu women