Tag: joy
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Can’t you see my happy face?

Can’t you see my happy face? I’m smiling, can’t you see? These are tears of joy, you know, Your blessings gladden me. Can’t you see my happy face? It’s the best news the world, I can’t wait to meet your little one, Whether boy or whether girl. (Can’t you see my empty space? The hole…
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A Love Story

Here is where their story begins, In a time when they were young, And they did not yet regret their sins. A boy whose praises went unsung, Met a girl who ignored her worth, And together they climbed on love’s first rung. But they scaled too quickly from earth, And when those naïve darlings fell,…
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The Trade

What would I trade for all the joys of raising girls, of raising boys? For all the sleepless nights and such? For all the pain (there has been so much)? For all the hugs and laughs and fun? For the times I’ve all but given up? For the times I’ve dreamed the ‘what could be?’…
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Love Is…

There sits a child with tears in his eyes, A bolt through strongest heart with the sound of weakest cries. Love is a hug, That that child gives to you, Just to make you smile, Although he himself is blue. There breaks a dawn, The brilliance of light cascading from the heavens to take away…