[Zero Cool]

MOTHER TERESA : “BY BLOOD I AM ALBANIAN”


And they questioned Mother Teresa:
“Why are you wearing white?”
And she revealed a little bit of
Her white and blue striped veil
Showed them a piece of cambric underneath
And said peacefully:
“I am an Albanian woman,
We have our hair tied up
In a white cotton head kerchief
Our good omen…our tradition—is this…”
The whiteness of her spirit made her ready for Heaven.
And they questioned Mother again:
“What will you do when you retire?”
And she pronounced modestly:
“I am a good cleaner,
As all Albanian mothers and sisters,
We wash the wooden floors with brush and soap
Making them bright like a mirror,
There is no woman who can do a better job!”
She desired to clean the surface of the globe
From diseases, wounds and poverty…
Didn’t she transform, this queen of humanism,
Because she was an Albanian—nurtured
By her birthplace’s tradition of self-denial?
Teresian virtue—the sinless humanity
Is an ancient piece of the Albanian’s genes
At the beginning on Illyria’s antique lands
Echoing and revealing civilization’s first morning…
Mother Teresa ended:
“What the world needs now is Love.”


Nga: Rozi Theohari