Ten today
and your smiles are easy
your jokes plentiful,
you still take hugs
(with secret relish)
and you are all at once
tall
and my little boy,
swaggering
and so easily crushed
and since I cannot
watch you intently enough
to keep you from running off and growing
up
I will give you
instead
a something to carry along:
the surety that
I
love
you
and that
this
you will never outgrow.
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14 comments:
Happy Birthday Bee! I still can't believe you're 10...oh my word!
beautiful....thank goodness they can't outgrow that.
happy birthday to your bee!
Happy birthday kiddo! He'll cherish that poem when he gets older.
You leave such beautiful notes for your darling kids. It always makes me smile a huge warm deep smile. Your kids are lucky to have you!
What an incredible poem...so rich and vibrant...so touching and full of love. So much like the poet that wrote it.
Happy Birthday Bee!! 10, wow, how cool is that? You are, and always will be, my first grandchild. I still remember sitting with you playing with the alphabet tool for hours on end. I remember the hundreds of nerf basketball games. But mostly I remember how much I love you and how proud I am of how you are growing and developing into such a special person.
What a wonderful poem...
Happy Birthday :)
I love that you two have identical smirks.
Your poem made my throat all squeezy.
Happy Bee-lated Birthday, Bee!
Breathtaking. Such sentiments.
I have a boy just a little younger than your son: I feel every word you wrote.
-N.
Happy birthday 10-yr-old!!!! How lucky you are to have such a great mom!!!
Happy Birthday, Bee!!! What a big boy! :)
you always have such an amazing way with words!
hope your son had a great birthday!
You know a poem is good when it brings tears to your eyes...beautiful poem (and beautiful family)!
You made me cry!!
Happy belated birthday to your big boy.
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