I'm way behind in updating this blog and since today is Valentine's Day, I dug up something extremely mushy I wrote for my sons a few months ago around 4:30 one morning when I was up with a sick baby. VERY rough draft by the way.
Yes it's corny, but keep in mind I'm extremely rusty at this type of thing. Other than a few anniversary poems, this is probably the longest rhymed thing I've written since college.
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How many times have I greeted the morning
While changing your diaper or calming your cries?
How many times at the sound of your voice
In the dead of the night like a zombie I rise?
How many times have I prayed that your sickness
Be taken from you and delivered to me?
I have cried when you’ve hurt and been scared when you’re worried
From going new places to scraping your knee
How many nights have I lain awake listening
Just to be sure that your breathing was clear?
How many times have I fretted because
Any danger to you is the worst of my fears?
How many times have I stood stunned and watched you
Discovering life like receiving new toys
The sound of your laugh is the best of rewards
And the sight of your smile is the greatest of joys
How many times has my hope been restored
When I’m watching you play or just watching you sleep?
You are never a burden and always a lesson
The care of your life is a trust I will keep
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Thursday, February 08, 2007
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