I have thought about writing a parenting book for a long time, and toyed with various ideas for expressing my views.
The format I kept coming back to was poetry.
I have always enjoyed creating rhymes, and often find myself composing verse in my head. I felt compiling a bunch of short poems on the various aspects of motherhood would resonate best with my audience.
This poem originally appeared on the Maybe I’ll Shower Today Facebook page.
One More
One more kiss
Before you go down to sleep
My sweet little baby
My heart you keep
One more push
On the swing my love
My spirited child
Soar, soar above
One more wave
As you board the bus
I promise to not
Make much of fuss
One more lecture
Before I hand you the keys
Tell me once more
You’ll be careful, please?
One more hug
At your college room
How did this moment
Come so soon?
There will never be enough “one mores”
So, I will savor the few
And be thankful for the blessing
Of raising you.