A Parent's Love

06 March 1993 - at the age of 22, I still felt very strongly the divide between my parents and achingly wished for my father's unconditional love...

The spirit or soul

Graces the body

Created by the love

Of two people

A Gift from God, Himself

A couple blessed

With a child

Representing their love

For one another

That love grows

Encompassing the child

This miniature

This miracle who

Grows and is

Nurtured by the parents

This is the ideal

Reality stares us

All in the face

We turn our backs

To ignore the neglect

Which stems from

Parental selfishness…

I warn you all

The worst damage

Done is that which

Results from

The parent denying

The child the one

God given gift

…the one the soul

Accepted when it

Entered the body…

…part of the agreement

Made for the blessing of Life…

The gift denied?

 

The parent’s love

 

Without that love

Part of the miracle

Is gone

For what you do not

Understand

Is that the love

Between parent and child

Is an extension

Of God’s love

 

A quote over many a

Grandmother’s sink:

 

“The love in your heart

Wasn’t put there to stay;

Love isn’t love

‘Til you give it away”

 

Do not destroy

God’s truest miracle

…Love…

By holding it within

Share it with the

World around you

For the blessings

Given in return

Are ten-fold

Otherwise the love

Withers and dies

Turning to bitterness

And neglect…

 

“For God so love loved us

He gave His only

Begotten Son”

 

Honor that love

Love the miracle

God had given

The child you helped

Create and you

Will find the love

Within yourself

Expanding with more

Than enough to go

Around

 

Do not fear that

It will not be returned

For God’s love is a

Blessing above all

 

And with such love

I, being the product

Of such a miracle,

Love you, my parent,

Who brought me here…

 

Honor thy promise

To the Lord…

Share the Love

He has given you

And watch the blessing grow

And receive your

Gift of love in return