A Parent's Onus

Does being a parent ever get easier? Here's a poem, straight from the heart. This was published in the Spark magazine. If you are a parent, this might resonate with you.

http://www.sparkthemagazine.com/?p=9109

A Parent's Onus

And you thought it couldn’t get harder

When you brought home

A piece of your heart

And fretted over his tender body

Holding him gently like a feather

And you thought it couldn’t get harder

Till he started to crawl around

And bawled and babbled and

Gobbled your home around him

Holding hostage your anxious breaths

And you thought it couldn’t get harder

Till he grew and grew like the waxing moon,

Often eclipsing away in sickness

And found his own two feet holding him up

While you readied yourself, lest he fall

And you thought it couldn’t get harder

Till he found himself, no more an extension of you

With ego and opinion and logic and reason

And radiant limbs that took him places

While you stroked his head through nightmares

And you thought it couldn’t get harder

Till he ran like the wind was yesterday’s dirt

But pottered into school unsure of its turf

His eyes staring at the door in eager wait

While you rushed through your work to pick him up

And you thought it couldn’t get harder

Till he needed you not to hold him

But to tell him things to guide his days

Right, wrong, fallacy, faith, character, power

While you ponder if the job ever gets easier