gently
and quietly walk away.
Return to the open spaces we once swam freely
among the sea of so many hours in the day
I had the luxury of wishing away
the last few in the afternoon.
Those days long passed
those long hours
used to scream at me
to do something significant
as I washed walls and windows and sticky fingers --
to be someone more than
the stay-at-home mom, long-order cook
and housewife extraordinaire.
And now as the hour hand races from number to number
and I scramble to make it from
place to place
activity to activity
little body, to preschool body to strong arms
these short days whisper
to slow down
return to
that extraordinary ordinary
I'd so desperately wanted to escape.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteLinking in from Lisa Jo. I feel for what you are saying but I miss all that - I have 3 grown children and now I am in "retirement". But God has been keeping me still with kids. Created a little book called Tadeo Turtle which just came out. Fun times.
Blessings in your family times.
Jan
Those days are a blessing and you KNOW that I would never predict saying this but there is something magical in having more time to yourself once they are all in school. It is a time of rediscovery and it produces new ambitions. It was tough at first, even lonely, but then time marches on and so do you. when you get there you will feel that it is as much as a blessing as these days that you treasure now. For realz :)
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