What have you become?

My only daughter, my only son

Just who do you think you harm?

Breaking away from these arms

Where will you go, where will you be?

If you find your way without me

I will catch you when you fall

But must you run from it all?

Don't rub me out of memory

I love you as if you were all that could ever be

My only daughter, my only son

What have you done?

Feeble you are when you try to break

the very fabric from which you are made

It's hard out there but, you dont have to be

Insistant upon bieng without me

My only daughter, my only son

How will you ever truly love?

You will grasp infatuation at its very core

But you will never learn elswhere

How to gain much more

How will you know what uncondition is?

There are no examples without influence

My only daughter, my only son

You seem well, what have you become?

A person held in great esteem

Amongst your peers

And without me

And so now you may never see

The need you have for you with me.

The spouse with whom you infatuate

The children with whom you commiserate

They need more than your empathy

They need you, and you need me.

My only daughter, my only son.

I will be here when you come undone.

--Dezi OCT 2006

and the first thing Ive written in like 3 years...

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