when children fly the nest, <br />its a sudden shock, but true <br />and you are faced with the twilight years <br />left alone are just the two of you. <br /> <br />no more fights between siblings, <br />no jokes, laughter or demands for food, <br />no mom baking cakes lovingly, <br /> and feeding her hungry brood. <br /> <br />its ironical, how you wait for them to grow, <br />and time flies fast and true, <br />before you know it, they have fled the nest, <br />to make their own lives, and take their due. <br /> <br />left alone are the two of us, <br />but its a nice period in life in a way, <br />gives you time to rediscover each other, <br />fall in love all over again, if one may. <br /> <br />the earlier years of marriage are the best, <br />you are eagerly facing the unknown future, <br />but soon the children come along <br />and you are caught up in motherhood and nurture. <br /> <br />when they leave, the shock is quite numbing, <br />you look for something to fill the gap, <br />the mother especially feels all withered, <br />like a tree that has no sap. <br /> <br />but then you draw closer as a couple <br />and become dependent and unseparable even more, <br />the granchildren are making an arrival, <br />and you love them dearly with every pore. <br /> <br />the enjoyment you derive from the grandkids, <br />surpasses even what you had with your offspring, <br />now you have the patience, and all the time, <br />to play with them, and indulge their every whim. <br /> <br />so that is the path life takes you on, <br />enjoy each stage as it comes, <br />make a stop, savour every real moment, <br />because, before you know it, it will have gone.<br /><br />Arti Chopra<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-children-fly-the-nest/
