Enjoy Your Children

Appreciate happiness

when it knocks at your door

since you would not know

what life has for you in store.

Take pleasure

in your children as they grow

Treasure every moment,

as one day they might go.

Don’t complain that they did

this or that, and

they don’t have time for you

but with their friends chat.

Don’t take it for granted that

they will be there as long as you live

God might decide to take,

as He decides to give

Listen to a bereaved mother,

who wished to have died

before she witnessed the day

she buried her own child.

Randah R. Hamadeh, 2015, Copyright©
Author, Summer Rays-Solace for Bereaved Parents