Caring Restraint!

By Rhiannonw

Mon, 16 May 2011
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I’ll hold your hand
for your own good –
you cannot see
the things that could
be dangerous, hurt,
or make you fall –
I’ll hold your hand
while you are small!

I’ll hold your hand
until I know,
when I shout ‘STOP!’
you will not go,
but come if called –
at once return, –
I’ll hold your hand
until you learn …

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Comments

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on
Hi Rhiannonw, What a brilliant poem and such wise words. Great stuff. Jenny.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on
Thanks! From experience with twins, one didn't want to hold, and to run away, full of fun, but she respected me more for insisting!

 

Submitted by maggyvaneijk on
This is beautiful and tugs at the heart strings.

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on
Thank you! my friend the twin now has short times when I don't have to hold, but she recognises if she becomes unreliable, or there are more dangers around, she must hold!

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on
Thank you! my friend the twin now has short times when I don't have to hold, but she recognises if she becomes unreliable, or there are more dangers around, she must hold!

 

Submitted by jeand on

HI Rhiannon

This is a lovely poem. I know when my grandkids decide that they are too old to be seen holding my hand, it makes me feel a little sad. It's nice being needed.

Jean

Jean Day

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Yes, true, Jean. Thanks. Those twins were so full of fun, especially one, and then a younger sister too copied the mischievous one! But when you can't easily catch them …! So, it became a motivation - when I can trust you to come and not run off, then you wont have to have me hold you so much. We were around the farm where they live, not on pavements, but there was traffic around, and they could run quite far off! Rhiannon