Trust your children

Trust your children

To get it right

Nothing will prevent them

From trying

It is their world

To grow into

When all you can do

Is apply a sticking plaster

To an open wound

Children can administer the cure

If we let them

Support is a choice

We can make

With a pure heart

Or we can refuse

To let things go

Hold on to the strings

With all of our might

Until something snaps

It is a leap

Of faith

To take a back seat

When we always

Do the driving

It makes you

All the wiser

To know when to step away

Should they need help

They will ask

Take a chance

Whilst the decision

Is yours to make

One day they

Will come to thank you

For believing

They could fly

The future will be safer

If we can swallow

Foolish pride

Stand off to the side

And bathe

In a warm glow

Of parental nostalgia.