Thought 10DEC2008

TO MY GROWN UP SON
My hands were busy through the day. I didn't have much time to play. The little games you asked me to, I didn't have much time for you. I'd wash your clothes, I'd sew and cook, But when you'd bring your picture book. And asked me please to share your fun, I'd say. "A little later, Son." I'd tuck you in all safe at night. And hear your prayers, turn our the light, Then tiptoe softly to the door ... I wish I'd stayed a minute more.

For life is short, the years rush past ... A little boy grows up so fast. No longer is he at your side, His precious secrets to confide. The picture books are put away. There are no longer games to play, No good-night kiss, no prayers to hear, That all belongs to yesteryear. My hands, once busy, now are still. The days are long and hard to fill. I wish I could go back and do.. The little things you asked me to!
Author Unknown - Submitted by Eleanor Newbern - extracted from 'Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul', Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Jennifer Read Hawthorne and Marci Shimoff, Health Communications, Inc; 1996

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He who never made a mistake never made a discovery - Samuel Smiles