STANDING ON THE JETTY-malaysian poem in translation

STANDING ON THE JETTY is a translation of my poem Berdiri Di Pengkalan. It is about being a mother and raising up children. When the children are small they depend on you for everything. As a mother it is your responsibility to take care of them. When they are big enough they will have to go away from you. As  adults they have to start living their own lives.. 
A jetty symbolize a place of departure, separating childhood and adulthood. It is a point of separation. A mother who sees off her children departing to adulthood is like a mother standing on a jetty to see her child rowing a boat into the open sea. This is.where a mother waved goodbye to her children as they sail into a river of age and a sea of live. .