Mother had passed away in the early evening of September 21.
I remember the poem that I knew from my dying sister 18 years ago.

When we have done all the work we were sent to earth to do,
we are allowed to shed our body-which imprisons our soul like a cocoon encloses the future butterfly-
and when the time is right we can let go of it and we will be free of pain,
free of fears and worries-free as a very beautiful butterfly,
returning home to God which is a place where we are never alone-where we continue to grow and to sing and dance,
where we are with those who loved (who shed their cocoons earlier) and where we are surrounded with more Love than you can ever imagine!

役目を終えたから天に召されるんだね。
さなぎが殻を脱いで蝶になるように肉体の殻を抜けて、
苦痛のない世界に行くことを許されたんだね。
怖れも心配もなく、綺麗な蝶のように自由に空を翔ぶんだね。
もう決して独りぼっちにはならず、魂は成長し続ける、
先に殻を脱いだ人たちがいる世界で、
想像できないほどの愛につつまれるんだ。

My mother suffering from bladder cancer /　母が入院