ON OUR PARENTS SPECIAL DAY

You may not have a sister.
    You may not have a brother.
But every one of us have
    A father and a mother.

You may not remember their faces
    Nor even recall their name,
Yet it is still true that you
    Have parents just the same.

So what do you do when it's card time
    And others are joyous and glad,
When you are feeling such a loss
    And your heart is so very sad?

You still can have a father
    Or even a mother as well,
If you leave your heart wide open
    For only time will tell.

Someone who is now a strange
    May come to love you so
And give to you the parent
    That you never got to know.

When Jonathan Swift wrote his novel
    About a Surgeon's travels
He told about the little people
    This mystery he unravels

For it seems the six-inch people
    Had tiny children that they taught
Not to respect their parents
    (Although we think they ought).

For they were not thinking about them
    As they started the process called birth
And the life down here they did not find
    Was so very good, living on this earth.

But we do love our parents
    And we want them all to know
Not for giving to us this life
    But for never letting go!

They put up with our rebellion
    Even when we made a fuss
They never stoped caring
    The never stopped loving us

On this special day to our parents we say
    (Before this day is through,)
"Please do not be ashamed of us
    For we are so very proud of you!"

Mother's Day, May 13,2001
Dr Van