Letting Go

Letting Go

If you want to love a child

to raise her, you must listen and

be able to hear all that she says,

called truth.

If you want to help a child

to guide him, you must nurture and

know that he will have his own wisdom,

called life.

If you want to parent

to be a mom, you must be patient

with all that you learn from each other,

called love.

Child grows up, guidance not

needed, relationships change.

What’s left are the memories,

and love shining though

lighting the new pathways--

of letting go, letting go.

Writing / words are mine.  Poem form is patterned on:  “#17. Push boat with a flow of water” by Kim Goldberg, from her book called Ride Backwards on Dragon (Pig Squash Press, 2007).   Learn more about Kim Goldberg at http://liuhebafagirl.wordpress.com