Dual Parenting Alone
Why I get Mother’s Day and Father’s Day
It's become our own milestone
It made it all worthwhile
They thought it up on their own
This was never my idea
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They make both days perfect
Both Mother's and Father's Day
Showing me their total respect
They honour me each year
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And their love they portray
I get treated with gratitude
And still to this very day
All through their little lives
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On those two days of the year
Is the recognition I receive
To make up for all my tears
My reward for my hard work
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Would silence my previous uproar
Then a proud parenting moment
Thinking I couldn't do this anymore
There were many days I would cry
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Against each other, in any regard
Of pitting Mum and Dad
They could never play that card
And I'll never be replaced
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And will be until I die
I'm their first port of call
Between my beautiful boys and I
Ensuring an extra special closeness
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But it's all we've ever known
I shouldered the ups and downs
Being both Mum and Dad alone
For this reason I've dual parented
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A never ending amount of joys
It's always been a family of three
With the birth of my two boys
I feel I am so incredibly lucky
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Colleen Millsteed
My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.
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Comments (2)
This is a brilliant inverse. You have threaded a wonderful story of a mother’s relationship with her sons, while also changing the flow of the message on the re-read. “Would silence my previous uproar” is a key line that makes the ones just above and below different, and the rhyme in here gives its a lovely flow. Well done, and good luck in the challenge😊
I had the similar experience, so I know the feeling. This is from the heart, with those who appreciate. You are so very lucky, though it was hard, in the end, it was all worth it.