A Child’s Wish for Her Parents
10 years have passed 10 summers and counting!
Your pure white heart is ever-lasting.
Oh, have I questioned those pure intentions?
What a shame, what a shame.
Now I see the world with clarity,
and I’m lost in my mind’s insanity.
But what is this, what is this feeling?
Time is selfish and always stealing.
What shall I do, but what can I say,
you said, “such is life, and life shall be.”
I’m afraid now I can see,
when the last grain of sand heads overseas,
I might lose you. No! I will lose you.
There’s no stronger bond than that to your soulmate,
But what about a child to her parents?
It’s an everlasting bond brought to the graveyard
of countless generations and of countless broken-hearted.
After all, what purer love is there?
Than that you see on your parent’s hair.
Turning gray, losing its color
and skin turning dull and turning furrow.
I dreaded the thought that I will have to say goodbye
, and I dreaded the day that it would be my last kiss.
I dreaded the day when I could no longer
feel your warmth and despise your presence.
I dreaded the day when I could no longer
see those familiar eyes and nag me about my messes.
I dreaded the day when I could no longer
hear you ground me and give me consequences.
Oh, life sure is a sad melody.
Layered with a drip of melancholy.
But just like any other songs,
it is built with memories, short or long.
And even if I know that I have you not for long,
my memories of you will stay longer than long.
I look at them, my parents’ eyes,
and see a love that never dies.
Oh, how I’m grateful and how deceitful,
how short of a time I have in a handful.
Should I be thankful, or should I despise?
What time has given me, yet it divides.
You have given me what any soul cannot
, so let me be the one to tell you and say fear not!
You are enough and more than enough.
I love you, my parents.
Thereof, thereof!
