Appreciate

[Taliana]

I wrote this last year after i moved home for a brief time for my mum- we were fighting SO MUCH i didnt stay there very long, but i think this was written just when i moved in for the 2 months i was there... ive still never showed her, but am thinking i might send it to her.

For Mum- November 22nd, 2002

You may feel i don't appreciate

but i do

i don't tell you enough, let alone at all

how much i appreciate

Words are so hard to come from my proud mouth

but i want you to know

i appreciate

Not good with open affection

emotions scatter and hide inside

When you ask me i run, and hide under the covers

but i want you to know

i appreciate

Written word just barely gives the justice to how i feel

and how much i thank you for all that you have given up

I will do the same for my own offspring,

because i truly do, appreciate.

 

[PsychoKitten]

send it, it's a beautiful piece and sometimes the words unspoken make a world of difference to a relationship (like the Dear Lauren writing that I decided to acutally give to my sister when she was sick).

Perhaps get it printed on nice paper and put it with her xmas gift?

 

[haste]

Damn, I could easily use this with my own parents!

Very nicely expressed and written... it would make a lovely gift to your mother

 

[Taliana]

Hey- yeah ive decided im going to give it to her as part of her xmas present, but in true martha style, im going to put a note on the top of it, saying to open after i leave (yes, to avoid emotional confrontation, which im so bloody good at!). The poem is enough. hehe

This would be a better present than anything i bought her i think in her mind.