so proud of not only, one child but the both of them!
watching my two wonderful girls march across the stage!
In their caps and gowns last month!
Receiving diplomas!
An accomplishment!
Achieved by my two seeds!
I closed my eyes trying to keep my proud tears from falling!
But the water kept filling up in them and I allowed them access to fall!
Pride? not at all!
I just shook my head and said "my, my, my look at my beautiful girls!"
It still plays freshly in my mind the very first time I held them!
They didn't have a clue as I looked in their little eyes!
With a smile glued on they faces as they looked up at mine!
And the future dreams i had for the both of them went wild & crazy thru my mind!
But I didn't plan for it happening this fast!
I think I wanted the growing process to last just a little bit longer!
But WE ALL got older!
They got smart, taller, pretty!
And i couldn't stop the gray from showing up!
But stuffed, like a well kept folder in my memory banks is all our history!
So sweet to me I saw, I seen, being around them while they grew!
And the little kats hanging around couldn't ignore neither!
I taught the birds, the bees story!
I used myself as a example!
I kept it real, I wanted them to know the clean and the dirty version!
Now them being young adults the world is open for them to explore on there own!
And it don't matter how old they get, they got the number to my phone!
I love them so much starting from my heart, mind & deep in my bones!
They'll understand when they start having children on they own!
later on after they get situated in life!
Over all being with my daughters is priceless!
The time we share is not enough!
kinda hard to let them go on, on there own!
But fulfilled with slices of personalities from mother, father, grandma, grandpa, uncles, aunts, cousins, friends!
I got faith there be fine!
When I was young I heard a phrase "it takes a village to raise a child"!
Wisdom from a tribe leader who knew the benefits of more than just the two parents raising a children!
I see then the worth of family structure!
I can lay down and feel my chest hit the ceiling!
what a very special wonderful feeling for me to be a dad!
And STILL BE PROUD!!!
JAMES E. LAMB III
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