I worry about you like you worried about Chloe
the day I never brought her home from the vet;
Would she be happy in Heaven?
Would someone throw the ball for her?
Take her for long walks across the blue pastures
Of the sky?
But I can’t rescue you from adulthood.
All I can do is cheer you from the sidelines
like I used to do in Nationals
Wish you fangs and claws to fight off the trolls,
The sting of the scorpion
A heart as fierce as Balerion, the dragon
From Game of Thrones,
But peaceful and playful as Puff, that magic dragon
From Honalee.
- pic by ilse orsel from Unsplash.com
John Malone 
Sitting the sidelines is so difficult already with my two. How I long for the three of us to frolic in the Autumn must in a land called Honah Lee. Great post, John.
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Mist
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🙂 Honalee would be a great place to spend time with the kids; wonder how you get there 🙂
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Billowed sails, of course. Or just my record player. 😉
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ahh yes, the record player is our musical Tardis 🙂 eat your heart out, Doctor Who 🙂
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Yes, well we’re all stories (or records) in the end. 😉
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very well said 🙂 hope our lives are full enough to be recorded on a triple album 🙂 AND people enjoy listening 🙂
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I feel this so much. It’s so hard to let them be grown up. To let them go.
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it is hard; mostly you wish them resilience, inner strength —
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This is very good John……
I can see little Chloe trampolining on the clouds right now…she’s very happy…..I’m waiting to see how they organize ball games….
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that’s a wonderful image, Don; thanks 🙂
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Keep that in your mind….it helps get over the sad times…….let me know if you see any developments in the ballgame area…it’s all new to me……
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🙂 I will keep you posted, Don on developments 🙂
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It is the hardest thing to have to d on nothing, but sometimes it is very important to do
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you’re right, Beth: it is the hardest thing, but they need to tap into their inner resilience —
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Only way to really figure out how to get through life
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I’m learning how to pull back, Beth 🙂
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This is so relatable. It’s the hardest thing to just watch from the “sidelines “.
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yes, but we all know we have to; and it starts all over again when the grandkids come along 🙂
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This is so lovely. Heartfelt and beautifully expressed. And i Iove the end.
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thank you very much 🙂
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And the title is perfect
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it was a fight between that and ‘let there be dragons’ but I thought the latter a little heavy handed 🙂
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Very beautiful poem and very well expressed thoughts.
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thank you 🙂
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Bittersweet, isn’t it? The cheering continues!!
I love the thought of ‘the blue pastures of the sky’ – and, yes, that is a more apt title.
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thanks, Ed; it is important not to hammer home the point; after all, it is a poem not a polemic 🙂
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I like the balance of those words – poem and polemic
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as you can see my eyesight is fading rapidly!
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so sad, Michael: the death of pets; I see you wear glasses; are they not strong enough?
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