21. My Daughter, My Friend
I see the pain in your eyes and feeling like you do.
I wish I could take it all away and skip these years for you.
Being a teen is so very hard, it really isn't fair
I see the pain in your eyes and feeling like you do.
I wish I could take it all away and skip these years for you.
Being a teen is so very hard, it really isn't fair
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Bottled up inside
Are the things I never said,
The feelings that I hide,
The lines you never read

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My little boy is growing
Getting bigger every day
I fear it won't be long enough
Before I have to say
When I first held you in my arms,
You were so perfect and so small.
You are a full-grown woman now;
And I am proud, oh how!
How do I close the door to this space?
With my eyes filled with tears, my arms haven't the strength.
How do I close the door to this space?
What has happened to the days?
What has happened to the years?
Please let me for one last time
wipe away your tears.
Give mother a hug
Father a kiss
The time has come
We have talked about it
I don't know what you're going through,
But I hope you understand,
I'm just trying to be your mum
And give you a guiding hand.
There comes a time in a young girl's life,
When she begins to start growing up.
It's a time when you need to let her go
And trust that she'll take the right path.
Famous Poem
The mother soothes her mantled child
With incantation sad and wild;
A deep compassion brims her eye
And stills upon her lips, the sigh.
I watch as she flaps her arms,
Pretends to fly.
With her optimistic charms,
Always asking why.