Wednesday, 16 April 2008 . 19:14

Hey guys.. this time this post is a challenge for you guys. Stop what you're doing, and call your parents to read this... Its a poem by Sally Meyer... (Sally, keep up your amazing pieces of writing... you are touching people's hearts in so mahy ways!!!)


Just for this day.

Just for this morning, I am going to smile whenever I see your face. and laugh when I feel like crying.
Just for this morning, I will let you wake up softly, all rumpled in yourflannel and I will hold you until you are ready.
Just for this morning, I will let you choose what you want to wear, andsmile and say you're beautiful.
Just for this morning, I am going to step over the laundry, and pick youup and take you to the park to play.
Just for this morning, I am going to eat a huge breakfast , with bacon eggs, toast and waffles, and you don't have to eat any.
Just for this morning, I will leave the dishes in the sink, and let youteach me how to put that 100 piece puzzle together.
Just for this afternoon, I will unplug the telephone and keep thecomputer off, and sit with you in the garden blowing bubbles.
Just for this afternoon, I will not yell once, not even a tiny grumblewhen you scream and whine for the ice cream truck, and I will buy you one if he comes by.
Just for this afternoon, I won't worry about what you are going to bewhen you grow up or who you might have been before your diagnosis.
Just for this afternoon, I will let you help me bake cookies, and I won'tstand over you trying to 'fix' things.
Just for this afternoon, I will let you put all kinds of barettes in myhair, and put lipstick on my face, and I will tell you how pretty you have made me look.
Just for this afternoon I will take you to McDonalds and buy us both aHappy meal so you can have both toys.
Just for this evening, I will hold you in my arms and tell you a storyabout how you were born, and how much we love you.
Just for this evening, I will let you splash in the bathtub and not getangry when you throw water over your sister's head.
Just for this evening, I will let you stay up late while we sit on theporch swing and count all the stars.
Just for this evening, I will bring you glasses of water, and snugglebeside you for three hours and miss my favorite show on t.v.
Just for this evening, When I kneel down to pray, I will simply begrateful for all that I have and not ask for anything, except just one more day.

Sally Meyer http://trainland.tripod.com/poems1.htm
Copyright 1999

*No portion of this poem may be reproduced without permission from the author
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