SOMETIMES

SOMETIMES

Sometimes at the end of day

When shadows start to fall,

I will sit and reminisce

And try to remember it all.

I'll think of days now long gone

When babies filled my heart,

When days were full and busy

And we would never part.

Looking back I see them growing

With neither care nor call,

I was there to hold them,

To catch them if they'd fall.

I wander back to school days

With lunches, books and balls.

I meander through the homework hours

And the giggly long phone calls.

One by one I see them changing

As they enter another phase,

I remember boyfriends and romance

And broken hearted days.

University and the work force

And the worry when they took the wheel,

Home before midnight please

That was the very painful deal.

Now that they are older and settled

And I am much older too,

It seems like only yesterday

When I would tie their shoe.

I am proud of their achievements

And the people they have become,

And it fills my heart with pleasure 

To hear them say "How are your Mum.?

I cherish every moment

For the days too quickly fly,

Sometimes at end of day

I wipe the tears from my eye.

© Linda J. Vaughan

2st. October 2011