For My Children, a poem

If I had the money
and the time,
I would spend
every waking moment
with my children
yearning to see the world
through their eyes
and learning to adjust my view.
It is not enough –
these moments spent
for though they are already
now by my side,
we get caught up in the distractions
the daily “to dos”
that promise to separate us.
Though together,
we are often separate
prowling our own mysteries
and were it not
those expectations
I would love to lay
beneath the clouds
in spring time
and watch them together
crawl slowly across the sky.
I would love to watch
the ripples of stones thrown
across the water’s edge
the horizon, wavering
in a cool blue stream.
It is in
these hurried moments
when schoolwork calls
when homework piles high
that still, I savor
every moment spent,
but if I had the money
and the time,
I would hope I would learn
to savor them all the more.

© Sumyanna 2017

 

Written for a prompt: “What would you do if you had the time and money…”