We will stay with you
These things cannot be weighed in the same scale:
The sense of social inroads
against steady family presence
What we are trumps what we think we want
And we are here for you
Even if you end up doing something with your friends
And we figure very little in your plans
We’ll still hold the day
Just like that one twenty years ago
Where nothing else was happening
And it was mind boggling
to imagine anyone could think
that this was any day
A dawn like no other
The start of parenthood
The birth of our family
A thing no one could train me how to do
A world that suddenly grew tiny
in the constriction of the moment
And I said, if something has to break for this to happen
Let it break
And it did
And you arrived
Sapient miracle
Blinking with wise and quiet eyes
Yes, we will stay with you
We’ll mark this day
With all our lights commemorate
your shining way.
©Wendy Mulhern
June 6, 2012