A child’s path to growing up paved with quiet heartbreaks.

the day they see their parents

not as superheroes,

but as people

who bleed, who fail, who make

unthinkable mistakes.

And the road to parenthood

is its own unraveling.

a slow fading of I can

into I can’t,

as the small ones grow tall

and the simple becomes complicated.

Two souls,

child and parent,

hurting each other as they learn

how the capable become incapable.

And their only bond left is a quiet prayer,

threading through the years;

Please forgive me.

Please understand.