Parenting, Big, Little, Love, and ????

Sure we love
'em,
wash 'em
hug,
touch
smile
clean
hold
caress
feed
protect
put to bed
change the diapers
smile
watch
enjoy

all the good stuff
love
practice for all the years
and days
and hours
we've forgetten

and yet
from their side
we are these seventeen
foot giants
telling "em
what to do
what not to do
something pushing
and pulling just
a bit too hard
for the little bodies
and arms
often voice to loud
and lots
of
no,
no,
no,
no
(and we wonder were the "terrible twos" comes from,
ha)

so,
of couse
usually,
we know,
it's "for their own good"
(honesty might include:
"for our own convenience"
or
"fot the sake of a ritual
my tribe believes in")
but anyway

they are little
our side
means nothing

we are giants
ordering them around

think about how
that must feel sometimes

annoying?
infuriating?

who knows
but worth
pondering

a big side
of
love