Wrote this about a month ago, but never got around to posting it. It hasn’t been edited, but came about in my morning meditation as I focused on my breath ~inhale here ~exhale now:
A newborn baby cries swathed in his mother’s arms;
She whispers, “I’m here with you right now.”
A toddler takes her tentative first steps and stumbles;
her father picks her up smiling, “I’m here with you right now.”
A child spills off his bike for the first time without training wheels;
his mother picks him up with a laugh, “I’m here with you right now.”
A teenager cries at her first broken heart;
her mother wipes away the tears with a hug, “I’m here with you now.”
A graduate pauses before his valedictorian speech;
his father proudly mouths, “I’m here with you now.”
A bride excitedly waits to walk down the aisle;
her father sweetly calms her, “I’m here with you now.
A dying mother looks at her family as they all say: “We are here with you now.”
~T π
May 20, 2020
