To Attessa on Her 42nd Birthday
July 25, 2017
How did it get from then to now?
Where was I as it passed?
I remember yearning to sleep through the nite
Without you waking me for my breast
I remember yearning to talk with my friends
Without you interrupting and making demands
I yearned for a lazy morning, I could read a magazine
Without having to change your wet sheets to clean
I remember yearning that you could bathe yourself
So I could be doing something - anything else
I remember yearning that I could go out without you
Without you melting into a fit of tears
I remember yearning for the day that you could drive yourself
To your sports, after school clubs and friends\' houses
I remember, I remember, but in between those days
I adored and loved you and yearned for you to stay
At the age that you were, on each given day
And when the days that I yearned for were finally at hand
I yearned that those days had not come to an end
And knew if I could
I\'d do it all again