Challenging Days

Expectations tempered

Give me your time
I ask politely
Just for now
We really don’t know
What tomorrow will bring
In life
That is the only
Sure thing

I’ll give you my time
I say clearly
Now and always
Despite not really knowing
What tomorrow will bring
In life
Planning ahead
Ideally the better thing

Not really our time
I realise slightly
Actors in the universe
Always instinctively questioning
What tomorrow will bring
In life
When growing older
Gaining experience is the positive thing

By Simone Beatrice Naik Noemdoe, 2012-03-15.

Mother Dearest

A parents’ dilemma
We cannot live
Your lives for you
When you were small
We could insulate your spaces
Shield you from unsafe places
Hide all the unsavoury stations
Now no longer
We battle
More and more
Independence you seek
Our advice
Just
Old folk speak

A parent’s dilemma
So contrite
For our own independence
We had to fight
Costly mistakes
Made along the way
In adulthood
So little room
To swing and sway
One day
You might have children
To keep safe
Until that time
We still have to try
Forever bound
My child and I

A parents’ dilemma
No guide book
Is it the right path
That today I took
Tomorrow room to improve
Every day older
The bargain seldom too good
Closer and closer
We hope to be
Drifting apart
Maybe part of nature’s deal
Moments close
I still wish to steal
Like the times when you chose me
Out of necessity
My little baby

By Simone Beatrice Naik Noemdoe, to all parents and children, 2012-03-15.