For Mummy's Birthday

       ~To My Children~

      When I spill some food on my nice clean dress

          Or maybe forget to tie my shoe,

           Please be patient and perhaps remember

            About the many hours I spent with you

            When I taught you how to eat with care,

             Plus tying laces and your numbers, too,

              Dressing yourself and combing your hair,

              Those were precious hours spent with you.

             So when I forget what I was about to say,

              Just give me a minute ~ or maybe two.

                 It probably wasn't important anyway,

                And I would much rather listen just to you.

               If I tell the story one more time,

            And you know the ending through and through,

                Please remember your first nursery rhyme

               When I rehearsed it a hundred times with you.

            When my legs are tired and it's hard to stand

           Or walk in the steady pace that I would like to do,

             Please take me carefully by my hand,

             And guide me now as I so often did for you.

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