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I wrote something that you might appreciate. It takes so much to raise a child. When they are newborns you must do EVERYTHING for them. As they grow older you must teach them to be responsible. You must love and nurture children. It is a full-time job. Maybe that's why it boggles my mind how these children we raise can turn around and cause parents so much pain. I know a single mom, today's flow is from her story:
Just Yesterday
By Steve Fitzhugh
Was it just yesterday
That I held in you in my arms
A suckling young infant
Shielding you from life' harms?
Was it just yesterday
That I nursed your wounded knee
You were all I had
And all you had of course was me?
Was it just yesterday
That I taught you how to read
How to ride a bike
Fly a kite, and climb a tree?
Life was quite hard for me
But for you I made it simple
A single-parents journey
No complaints no not one quibble
Some had said give up the child
You're better off alone
But I knew you were God's gift to me
And together we'd make a home
I wouldn't have dreamed in a million years
That my joy would soon turn to pain
I still can't believe that the you I now see
And the you, you once were are the same
I've tried my best, I gave you life,
In essence I gave my life too
But I can't seem to come to understand
Why my payback has been hard and so cruel
"You're too hard on me", I heard you once shout
"Mom, why don't you just give me a break?"
Sweetheart, I refuse to allow you to dance with the devil
Not just your life but your soul he will take
So sad you can't recall how I loved only you
How for years you only came first
Then maybe perhaps you'd never have spoken
Those words that caused me my hurts
Those rebellious, angry, ugly episodes
That brings me so much shame
Why can't you remember we once were inseparable?
It was me that even gave you your name
Seems like just yesterday, yes only just yesterday
I first wiped my baby's soft brow
I wish my young tot who is now my proud teen
Would love me like then right now!
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