Watching the pain swarm you  

Watching the sun burn your skin  

Watching the world outrace you  

While you race within  

Wondering what you feel like  

When you get run over  

Hoping you will scream out loud  

When it hurts too much  

Wishing I was the panacea  

Knowing it’s too late  

You’ve grown to a man-sized boy  

And you’ve got what I could give  

Knowing you’ve outgrown the band aids  

Feeling you find your own path  

Staying close by if perchance you ask me  

For an ear, a cry for help  

Seeing your potential  

Watching it bloom and wane  

Yearning for your very best  

And accepting you each day  

Life gives and takes away  

Life hurts and holds and sways  

Love melts and falls  

Love blooms and grows 

And gifts are opened and used  

And put on shelves  

Childhood becomes your own life  

As you grow out of my arm’s embrace  

And I pray to no one out loud  

I gave you a stash of something  

Of anything you will need  

I know we will always be  

Mother and child  

And you will never truly know the bond  

But I hope you know how much I love you  

From the day you were born  

Until forever disappears  

We never know the way it will feel  

And dent our hearts forever  

When we see the pain of our children  

When we share their joys  

When we watch them grow away  

But I also know you can handle this  

No matter what it is  

I see your fire  

I feel your confidence  

I watch you learn your insecurities  

And put them in the place they fit  

Either in charge or tamed finely  

I know you will live the life you want  

And need  

But the parts I watch   

Now as you turn into your own  

Version of you  

Is both pain and revery!   

So as I separate myself  

Knowing I will only hold you back  

If I grab and preach and grasp  

I also sit in wait  

While I grow my own joy and pain  

To be part of yours  

As life carries on  

I love you, my dear son.    

With Love,

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