President Premadasa'S Mother

Perfection-manifestation-soul,

Mother Jayasinghe.

Aspiration-mountain-heart,

Mother Jayasinghe.

Dedication-fountain-life,

Mother Jayasinghe.

Determination-volcano-eye,

Mother Jayasinghe.

Renunciation-sacrifice within and without,

Mother Jayasinghe.

India's mystic wisdom-lore of yore:

"Janani janmabhumishcha

Swargadapi gariyasi."

"Mother and Mother Earth

Are superior to Heaven itself."

Premadasa's Mother Jayasinghe,

Premadasa's Motherland Sri Lanka,

To you both the poet in me prayerfully bows.