Daughter's birthday
Posted August 4th, 2008 by donnellyprose

I have been here since your beginning.
I have loved you more than anyone else has.
I still do. But know that today, this will be changing.
The day is coming when that won’t be true

That one is coming that can see you better than me.
That one will be with you till the end.
I flinch with pain at this, but it is so.

Many years ago I let you fly. And fly you have.
You were never a manageable child.
You are a coat of many colors worn by a whirlwind.
Management was not what you needed.
Love was always what you needed most of all.

While I know I failed to love you enough here, I know I gave what I had.
I still do, I always will love you with the best of me.
It will never be enough.
You are one of those that will always need the love of many.
You give it away and so you need it more.
You have always given it away.
Today you only give your love away not yourself,
you have grown so much.

You have come to know yourself well enough
You have learned where you start and stop.
You have given yourself the gift of encouragement.
You are one of the bravest people I have ever known.

You have been brazen with your life, unashamed of anything.
Willing to bare yourself to the world
To find out if it spits you out or swallows you whole.
The results have been astounding.
You have learned what most of us do not learn for many years.
You have learned that most people are on some level consumed with fear.
That the best of us need love and encouragement.

There is another one coming. A person who will be so lucky to call you Mom.

I love and cherish you.

-Mom