Biba Ha’anen Man Nana❣️

Happy Mother’s Day to all the incredible mothers everywhere! Your strength, love, and sacrifices never go unnoticed. Today, I want to honor my Amazing Mom with a special poem I wrote for her❣️

Hu Guaiya Hao, Mom

Mom –

If I haven’t said it enough,

if the words ever felt too small

or came too late –

hear me now.

Hu guaiya hao.

I love you.

I always have.

I always will.

You are more than one role –

You are the heart of our home,

the strength of our family,

the quiet force of inafa’maolek –

bringing harmony, holding us together

even when life tries to pull us apart.

Like the steady stone of the latte,

You stand firm –

rooted in faith,

grounded in love,

carrying generations before you

and lifting those who come after.

You are a healer and guide,

teacher and protector,

a driver of dreams down long island roads,

a keeper of memories beneath the sun

and the sound of the ocean’s embrace.

Through every sacrifice –

seen and unseen –

You gave pieces of yourself

so I could become whole.

Even when I didn’t say thank you,

even when my actions fell short,

your love never wavered.

It stayed.

It held.

It believed in me

when I didn’t believe in myself.

So today, and always, I say it with my whole heart –

Si Yu’os Ma’åse’, Mom.

For your love, your strength, your endless giving.

And if I forget to say it,

if life moves too fast and I get lost in it –

please remember this truth:

I carry you in everything I am.

Your strength is my strength.

Your love is my foundation.

Because of you, I know what it means

to care deeply,

to give freely,

to love without condition.

Mom –

Hu guaiya hao.

Now and always,

You are my home.

© Matilda Naputi Rivera