A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Sunday, February 12, 2023

Grow so proud

Why do we get so proud? 
When our kids grow so 
big, so fast. Grow up, learn
to walk, talk, think, grow

bigger than us, outgrow

us.

We watch them coming
all the way bigger, stronger.
Harder, faster, more - why
do we get so proud

when they start
smacking us around, throwing
us into walls, revenge for snacks
withheld and groundings. Elder 

abuse, already! It's nothing to be 
proud of, but we grin and laugh -  
since 
we see something they don't. Their
own kids 

are coming up

right behind 
them.  

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