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Our Sun, Our Moon, Our Shining Star

9/2/2017

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  -- By Arulnambi K.

Amma loved going to the beach. She liked to sit and watch the waves, the boats and the people. After one such visit on a full moon day, she wrote the following:
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இன்று பௌர்ணமி
கடற்கரைக்குச் சென்றோம்
மணல் வெளி பார்த்தோம்
விண் வெளி பார்த்தோம்
கண்ணுக்கெட்டிய தூரம் கடல் அலை பார்த்தோம்
மேகங்கள் பார்த்தோம்
ஆகாயத்தில் விமானங்கள் பார்த்தோம்
அனைத்தும் பார்த்தோம்
அனைவரையும் பார்த்தோம்
நிலவை மட்டும் பார்க்கவில்லை

Translated:
Today is a full moon day
We went to the beach
We saw the sand and the sky
We saw the ocean, stretching as far as the eye could see
We saw the clouds and the planes high up in the sky
We saw everything, and everybody
We did not see the moon, though (on this full moon day)

Today, February 9, it has been two years since Amma left behind her family and this world, and departed forever into the heavens. She was our sun, our moon, our shining star, and not a day goes by without her permeating my thoughts, the way I think and even the way I act. She will forever be the missing moon on my full moon days.
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