Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Presence

I watch and learn so much from my daughter.  In part I learn the things I missed growing up.  It is probably the way with mothers and daughters, maybe fathers and sons.  She is able to be powerfully present to people in a way I wish I*d learned a whole lot earlier.
  
There are lessons I did not learn
As a child,
A teenager.
I learned them late.
My daughter has different lessons,
Attends a different school.
The curriculum
Is not the same.
Still I hope she learns
That simply being present
To someone
Transcends the differences.
There are not always words
To speak,
Problems
To be resolved,
Things to be fixed.
Sometimes there is no agreement
Possible.

Still I hope she learns,
Early on,
The power
Of her presence.

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