The Pain we put our Children Through

From the day that they are born,

We start charting their future,

We place upon them our expectations,

These expectations are based on “now”,

And fueled by the lessons that we have learned,

Not once do we consider,

That this little bundle of joy,

Isn’t even walking yet and we call it love.

 

We begin to plan and budget for that future,

Placing it above all else,

Not once seeing that by doing this,

The idea of keeping our children first,

Has disappeared and replaced by the desire of money,

We become driven to accomplish our mission,

Of making a better life for our children,

All the while being the main catalyst,

In their wrecked childhood and we call it love.

 

We put ourselves against all other adults that will enter their lives,

Even when it comes between their parents,

Trying so very desperately to convince them,

That we are the better of the two,

Not really knowing or caring how it affects them,

Because after all, we are doing it for love.