It Goes by Fast

You’ve heard it many times

It goes by fast

Sleepless nights disappear

Pick-up and drop-offs are no more

Messes are not left

Chatter becomes just silence

You hold space for your children

In a different way now

You worry they are safe

You want them

To make good choices

To have you be a part of their life

Not in an intrusive way

But, in a way that lets them be who they need to be

To grow how they need to

To fail and get back up

To entrust them to a higher power

It goes by fast

You realize you could never fully protect them

From life

From bully’s

From their pain

From other people’s pain

Because

This is life

Beautiful at times

Painfully broken at others

It goes by fast.

You can’t go back

And change how you may have scarred them

And show up more for them

Understand better

Change directions

Hindsight now can’t help you fix what was before

As you know better

It gives you time to do better

Show up now

Understand now

Give space now

Pour love in now

Ask for forgiveness now

It is no longer your time to teach them lessons

It is your time to catch them when they fall

Encourage them to get up

See their strength

Remind them of their strength

And be that place

That no matter what

Will always be their life breath

Their comfort zone

Their home.