Once They're Born

We stay awake watching them when first they are born, we stay awake watching them through the night when fevers flare and ear aches throb, we stay awake picking up toys and messes made through out the day, we stay awake praying for them to grow up healthy and strong, we stay awake listening for the keys to rattle in the door telling us their home safe once more, we stay awake and soothing the tears of broken hearts and lost dreams, we stay awake hoping the mate they've chosen will be forever more, we stay awake wishing our own mistakes would be the ones of their on learning, we stay awake looking for away to somehow take away the pain they suffer, we stay awake kneeling ,in endless, prayer asking for their eternal soul to make the golden gates of heaven. Lets face it. Once they are born We never again sleep the same. 


Copyright by Dianna Renee Jackson