I’m grateful that you’re here,
grateful that we could bail you out
and bring you home,
and have you in our lives,
Grateful that this, too,
is life-building,
and you will be stronger
because of it
Grateful to have learned
(though sorry that I didn’t learn it sooner)
that we only have one job
concerning you,
which is to see you —
to behold, in awe, your essence,
far more intricate and comprehensive
than we could grasp in a moment
or in years,
though we might glimpse it
in either years or moments . . .
No need to compel or criticize —
We only need (and need to only)
see and celebrate
what you bring,
what you give,
what you are.
©Wendy Mulhern
June 29, 2013
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