Oh, sweet darling...

[purplerabbit]

Listening to random play on my music files when Carole King began singing, "Child of Mine."

I found myself sitting quietly, tears rolling down my cheeks, my heart longing and proud at the same time:

Child Of Mine
Carole King
(Writer)

Although you see the world
Different than me
Sometimes I can touch upon
The wonders that you see
And all the new colors and pictures you've designed
Oh, yes, sweet darling,
So glad you are a child of mine

Child of mine, child of mine
Oh, yes, sweet darling
So glad you are a child of mine

You don't need direction
You know which way to go
And I don't want to hold you back
I just want to watch you grow
You're the one who taught me
You don't have to look behind
Oh, yes, sweet darling,
So glad you are a child of mine

Nobody's gonna kill your dreams
Or tell you how to live your life
They'll always be people to make it hard for awhile
But you'll turn their head when they see you smile

The times you were born in
May not have been the best
But you can make the times to come
Better than the rest
I know you will be honest
If you can't always be kind
Oh, yes, sweet darling,
So glad you are a child of mine.

Rowan left a month ago. Four months until he gets to visit for the holidays. Sometimes the hole in our lives is like a black hole sucking the light into nowhere.

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