A Parent’s Pain and Pleasure

A poem and reflection on my parenting choices, my childhood, my children, and unconditional love

File ID: 80478216 By Nadezhda1906 licensed from depositphotos.com — I chose this picture because it reminds me of a similar one of my daughter and me

nurturing and hurt
love and aches go hand in hand
some parents absorb the pain
that’s unconditional love
some dads do express such divine Empress energy

pain, bad ones inflict
then what becomes the children and children’s children
perpetuate or
escape ancestral aping cycles
rather than repeat, please rinse, release and
teach peace, love, understanding

Must have a code you try to live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a goodbye

yes, I ran away
yet never abandoned you
yet grasp how you feel
accept my role, pray your heart
knows that mine never left you

Don’t you ever ask them why
If they told you, you would cry
Cripes, I have and do I
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you