once you've grown

How your feelings for your parents change as you grow older.

Oscar Wilde once said "Children begin by loving their parents.

 As they grow older they judge them, 

sometimes they forgive them." 

I think that as the cloudy lens of youth

clears, your vision finds that your parents are

 not to blame for your faults and you cannot

 hold the grudges of yesteryear against them.

 These necessary moments of realization,

 sitting crystallized in amber time, 

refract the euphoric pain of

 newly cemented truths and unearth the obscured,

 once untended, devotion of the child to 

the parent. The love that bloomed neglected

 in shaded groves takes hold and cracks 

the stony crags of teenaged apathy, leaving 

behind the purer form.

Reviews

[Baby Ricochet]

I'm down with anyone who's down with Oscar Wilde. Great poem.

[Coyote Poetry]

I believe age teaches us to understand our parent. I had lousy parent. Raised in foster homes. I became good friend with my parent. I understood their choices. Many things can go wrong in a life. Love and understanding teaches us to know the pain of life and to forgive mistake that were made. A powerful poem. Open the door to thoughts. Thank you for a excellent poem.
Coyote