Untitled Poem
by Ann Pass
It was only the other day
when I felt something very strange
It was a feeling I hadn't felt before
something impossible to arrange
I've never really put my arms around
the children, except when they were young
I've smacked them when they were naughty
and shoutted when they've done wrong
but as for physical loving
I've never been very good at it you see
maybe it's something that happened to me
But something happened the other night
Something I cannot explain
as wonderful as the Earth itself
like sunshine, or like the rain
My 10 year old daughter
she fell out of her bed
hurt her arm, and her leg
and ended up with a bump on her head
I dived out of bed and into her room
to find her crying on the floor
I picked her up and cuddled her
and took her to the bedroom door
I looked at her marks
and told her everything was alright
She kissed me and I kissed her
and we both said Goodnight
When I climbed into my bed
I just lay there and I thought
but I couldn't see the time
and as for the place, I didn't know where
I could see myself loving each one
my arms around them tight
and something special I thought was there
and it was a wonderful sight.
It may sound stupid to all of you
that something like this could affect me
but it's been a door to a new world
something before I could not see.
For all I've felt as if I loved my kids
I didn't love them till now
now I feel a different kind of love
a stronger bond between me and them, somehow
I've stopped smacking them
and shouting, now I don't hardly do
but I am patient and loving
and sometimes say 'I love you'.
Those three little words
mean a great deal to anyone
a cuddle, a shoulder to cry on
from mother to daughter or son.
For all those of you
who scream and shout in the heat
let love take over your life
Don't go down and be beat
Like you'd like to be loved
your children need your love
and for your reward, find peace
from our next home, with God above.
Copyright The Bentilean 1999
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