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Her Graduation Poem

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Submitted by My4kidsmom on Sat, 08/03/2013 - 3:52pm

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This is a poem I wrote when my SD18 graduated in June. Of course I didn't give it to her but it helped to put down on paper how I feel.

I didn't come to watch you
Walk across the stage.

I didn't come to see you on your special day.

This day when every eye, is focused just on you,
and everyone is watching everything you do.

How could I have missed it?, Some may ask in shock.
As I sit here by myself, staring at the clock.

You see, I've lived this day already,
many times before,
where everyone's life stops cause your the center of the world.

I celebrate today because "I" finally made it through.
9 long years of you, was all that I could do.

So on this day when every eye is turned your way again,
I'm pampering myself, prepared to start again.

A life that is my own, where what matters to me counts, without the chaos and destruction, that in your world abounds.

So as you leave my home, and take on this big world,
A graduation blessing is in order I suppose.

May the world give back to you, in as equal as a dose, as you have given those who've helped you the most.

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Submitted by The_Other_Mother on Mon, 08/12/2013 - 5:19am

You have one of those too I see? I call them "thunder stealers." Drives me batty. No one can do anything or have any spotlight whatsoever. They have to be the center of attention like they've never had it before. They are constantly the center of attention and yet they seem to need more.

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Submitted by TheyCallMeJo on Thu, 08/15/2013 - 5:13pm

I love this !!! Lol if I am still married when they graduate... I will remember this poem Smile

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Submitted by Freshstart on Sun, 08/18/2013 - 11:31pm

Very heart felt and honest. Don't you love having a place to write your truth where others understand.

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Submitted by browsing2013 on Mon, 08/19/2013 - 1:16pm

Thats very beautiful and honest. you have a gift with writing. Im sorry the relationship with her is not good. Wishing you a happy life, and hoping that the coming years will bring her some much needed maturity.

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Submitted by My4kidsmom on Mon, 08/19/2013 - 2:59pm

Thanks everyone for the comments. I have totally disengaged from her and DH is supporting me 100% now. She is no longer welcome in our home. I love that we have peace in our home finally and Dh really sees the positive difference with her gone. Strong validation if what she has put us all through.

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Submitted by Freshstart on Sun, 08/25/2013 - 10:09pm

My SD is 18 soon and will have finished her first year of Uni. Hope that I feel like writing a poem for me too. Just a bit exhausted of it all right now. Why so hard to get her own life?