Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Tomorrow

Written 8/9/2016

Tomorrow 
Last first day
beginning of the end
oldest of the young

My baby is grown
A few months shy of eighteen
he begins the journey to complete
his high school career

How can the time 
have gone
so quickly?

There's so much 
I want him to know.
I want him to feel prepared.
I want him to be prepared.

Tomorrow is the beginning
of the last year I have
to help him get ready
for the world without a net.

That's not true.
We'll always be his net.
Actually, we're not his net, 
more like a crash pad.

Saving him from everything
was never our style.
If we always came to the rescue
how would he ever be prepared

for tomorrow.

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