Catching your smile
Behind the door
Happiness all around
The space
Our life together
Finding its pace
Laughing at your jokes
And eventually
Feeling free to let go
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Tag: Children
Surrounded with love
Smiles rushing towards me
In the peace of night setting
I hear your sweet voice
Sounds of childhood euphoric dreams
Splashing on white walls
Creating sketches of light
Wrapping my heart with love
Your own truth
I don’t know it all.
When I was a little girl, I was a dreamer. I would spent hours looking outside , creating stories, building up spaces that talk to me, of a world that would enhance beauty, joy, peace, love. Teachers did not like it. I was too slow. I was too shy. I was too much of this and not enough of that.
When I was a little girl, I would talk out loud. Not to myself. To angels and people around that nobody could see but me. People didn’t like it. They thought others would say I’m crazy or something like this. They wanted me to stop acting weird.
When I was a little girl, I had dreams. I wanted to care for others. I wanted to help, guide, and heal. They looked at me like it wasn’t what would give me what I needed to feed a family. They told me to go for something else; I listened to them and I am now stuck in a job that pays the rent and makes everybody else happy but me.
I don’t know it all.
But I don’t want you to think that you are limited, that some places, some dreams are not for you. I don’t want you to say that you are not good enough, that you are an idiot. You are not. You are great and precious.
I don’t want you to believe that others know the truth. They don’t. There is not one truth. We all have ours. There is not one way. But plenty.
I don’t know it all.
But I’ll do my best to be always here for you, to trust you, to guide you and to be with you whatever road you choose to walk.
Our new family balance
I like days spent at the park just outside home. Kids playing. I love watching them.
I remember the first time we came here, his first steps on this ground. He would not let go of my hand. He’d rather like me to go down the slide with him, make sandcastles and build games with leaves and chestnuts.
Now as soon as we step inside this space, he is running towards his friends. If nobody is there, he’s confident enough to play on his own or make new friends.
When I stop and take the time to look at him, I breath in the knowledge that we found her balance by walking at our own pace.
The two of us
Holidays are behind us already.
We spent time together. He spent time with his friends. He made new ones and let some others go.
We let time flow without wishing to hold it, like we tend to do the rest of the year, fearing to lose it doing nothing of interest, feeling trapped in hours that go too quickly before we know it.
Holidays are the time we needed. For us. For us a a family.
It’s tough sometime to be just of the two of us. Some days are hard for him I know. He told me so. He would like more people around. He would like to live with noise and mess, laughs, toys scattered all around the place, diners with many stories to be told.
But we ought to do with the cards we have in hands. I don’t wish to live with “if”. We are building relationships on strong basis and we are always happy to do things together. Most of the time, we’ll do our best. For the rest, we’ll go with the flow…
In your dreams
Your head looking at the stars
Wandering in lands that I can only imagine
You create stories from a cloud, a grain of sand
Your two feet on the ground
You’re beautiful when you are dreaming
Childhood Grace
Your gaze
Facing the sea
Calling us
To find peace
In the knowledge that
Your grace
Embrace the world
Mother and Son
I’d like to hold on to
This moment
When you wake up and smile
When your skin touch my skin
When your sleepy eyes find it hard
To adjust to daylight
When you rest between my arms
Peaceful, serene and calm
I’d like to hold on to
These precious minutes
Mother and son bonding time
This poem was written as part of a poetic collaboration initiated by Neha from the blog Forgotten Meadows – Theme “once more”.
One smile
One smile
Sent from strangers
Into the wild world
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She’ll catch it
For she knows
The power
Of love shared
In just a smile!
Last day of summer
Walking on sandcastles
Made by little hands
Searching for a sense
Of gravity
Smiling faces
Turned to the ground
**
On the deserted beach
Summer is gone
In a blink of an eye
