Notes from Wikiquote
You have been faithful for years to bring order into our house. | As soon as the dawn appeared in the night sky | you rose towards the tasks awaiting you – | in the silence of a mental prayer. | Perhaps it is not enough even the overwhelming love | to which you gave the sober expression of concrete acts. | The sacred wool, the steaming milk and the bed | composed with inimitable care by your hands. | Going back in time you recounted to your children their births | and the birthdays have slowly vanished. | The beginning is now found from a thousand beginnings | with the ancient, with the unknown, with Christ. | A present act includes them all | opening after the events have passed. | And there is a severe duty for struggle | something in our own life could be wrenched away by it. | The guards will soon appear | and they will take me to my cell with the high window. | You will still be with me | as mother and inexhaustible human presence. | Giving freely of your love, you still knew that your son is freedom. | You were a nearness, that always found something to do. | I have watched you unflinching under hardness and spite | always moving, and acting | holding back your inner rebellion you had pity on rage. | Now we are together to work and open all around. | In the loving gift to the world which ever crucifies us | is our fulfilment. | Seeing its limitations, still to treasure everything | is the gesture of infinite miracle | and you were right: order comes from this principle | the earthly goods, as our brothers the prophets tell us | will be given unto us.