Parenting

Does anybody have a list

Or someplace i can get the gist

Hey, is there something I have missed

A guide to being a parent.

I don't think that my naive plan

For Alex, Zachary & Han

Is quite the same when it began

What else could I have done

They say you shouldn't be their friend

But I assumed that would depend

On how you wanted it to end

But now I think it's true

How does a mother gain respect

Through sympathy or intellect

I think I should have double checked

But I'm not sure with who

Bed Thoughts

Sometimes when I'm thinking

I slip inside the deep of me

The picture palette of splendid colours

Turned muddy by the guilt and fear

The constant reminder of you know who

Is tugging pulling at my hair

Sometimes when I'm sleeping

There's balance and there's harmony

But on my journey to the dawn

I wave to what I leave behind

And step towards the storm

The daylight highlights as I wake

The sharpness as my taken breath

The shifting gears another day

To add to my remaining years

I compromise on how I plan

To be the perfect citizen

But every time the mighty falls

I have to think it out again

Sometimes when I'm wide awake

I wish I could control my fate

Like lucid dreams which celebrate

How I could master every story

How I would look in happy endings