PLEASE BE PATIENT

To My Children:

When I spill some food on my nice clean dress

Or maybe forget to tie my shoe,

Please be patient and perhaps reminisce

About the many hours I spent with you.

When I taught you how to eat with care

Plus tying laces and your numbers too

Dressing yourself and combing your hair

Those were PRECIOUS hours spent with you.

So when I forget what I was about to say

Just give me a minute... or maybe two

It probably wasn't important anyway

And I would much rather listen just to you.

If I tell the story one more time

And you know the ending through and through

Please remember your first nursery rhyme

When I rehearsed it a hundred times with you.

When my legs are very tire and it's hard to stand

Or walk the steady pace that I would like to do

Please take me carefully by my hand

And guide me as I so often did you.

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