Sunday, July 17, 2011

growing

relax
let go

children grow
older
stronger
to their own person

new experiences
new places

you raise them
to be on their own
and
to come back to you

being away
isn't forgetting

so
relax
let go
it is supposed to be this way.

3 comments:

  1. This speaks to me as a parent, but also made me remember feeling these things and thinking them when I was much younger (I'm not telling how much younger!).
    Does your poetry come easily to you?

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  2. It comes very easily. I just think of something or an event will transpire...I usually think of a few words and then get rolling. Most are done in about ten minutes.

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  3. the "being away isn't forgetting" speaks to me. i wish my mom knew that- 250 miles from me...

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