Growing Pains

Growing Pains

by Paula Marie Martin

It was a warm October day,

The silence shattered by your cries

When they put you in my arms

Eyes like midnight skies.

And I felt right away

The deep abiding ache

Of your growing pains.

Twelve years later in my room

When your daddy chose to leave,

I held you in my arms

While you cried yourself to sleep.

And just like that first day

I felt the deep abiding ache

Of your growing pains.

If I could find a way

Strike a deal with the moon,

I’d take away the hurt,

Learn your lessons for you.

Yesterday you called

From your apartment across town,

Voice trembling on the line

And your world turned upside down.

And I felt right away

The deep abiding ache

Of your growing pains.

If I could find a way

Strike a deal with the moon,

I’d take away the hurt,

Learn your lessons for you.

If I could find a way

Strike a deal with that moon,

I’d take away the hurt

Learn your lessons for you.

It was a warm October day,

The silence shattered by your cries.