Being a mommy,
to have your heart existing
outside your body
to feel your heart break
with every tear that falls
from bright shining eyes
to laugh and to cry
with their first step, their first word
to worry… when, when
When will they walk, talk
to constantly compare them
to every other
what are they doing
that maybe I’m not doing?
Why their child, not mine
To measure yourself
not by personal success,
but by the children’s
To spend many years
just to teach them how to leave,
to live on their own
It cannot be rushed
They must be tended with care
Disciplined with love
Not knowing if you
have done a good job until
they have grown and gone
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I like a little melancholy poetry. 🙂 I know how you feel.
This is so good. So true, so heartfelt. Dang. I need a tissue.
This was perfect. Not melancholy. You said it well.
Love your haikus. Heart strings pulled! *sniff*
very touching. oh, somedays i think if i could only have a glimpse at what they will turn into…
Beautifully said. Wonderful haiku!
That haiku wins for most moving of the day!! Love ya girl!!
I wonder if when we have grandkids, we’ll get our hearts back?
So beautiful!
Loved this haiku! Well said. I think most of us moms can relate to this..
Wonderful ‘Ku this morning … mulling over the ups & downs of parenthood. Thanks for sharing.
Hugs and blessings,
so hard to wait because I am impatient, but not wanting the time to pass…ugh!
that was perfection!! beautiful. and…so many of us can relate!
thank you!!
xoxo
I don’t think it’s melancholy. It’s realism. And, we are allowed to want to keep them with us. We birthed ’em and loved them.
You’re making me cry Rachel! All so, so true.
Hope you are having a great Friday.
Great ‘ku. And so very true.
Happy Friday!
lovely. as always you are the haiku queen…nobody haikus like you!!
oh yeah. and even when they grow up and gone (*cry weep*), you still never know.
Rachel.. Do you mind if I print this out and put it on my desk at work in a frame.. *totally give you credit of course.. 🙂
I loved this. EVERY SINGLE WORD.
Loved.
This was lovely Rachel!
Kimmylyn: I would be honored!
This is beautiful.
If there were an official mother’s handbook, this would be printed as the forward.
Truly lovely.
Thank you.
I didn’t find it melancholy.
You speak the truth, and knowing that other moms think the same as I do helps me feel normal.