A child's beg

My humble and ‘stroked’ conscience cannot help my beingness not to present this to you. It is a clear picture of innocence and selflessness. A friend of mine was kind enough to lend me her son’s beautiful letter to God. Simple as it may look, it exudes care and love for people. Not expecting much but look at the way he wrote ‘Thank you’.

It is much bigger than his small request. He may not know it but he exhibited his being thankful in times of distress. Humbleness and being grateful for everything are the child’s abilities that each one of us grown-ups should mirror. The way nature and other factors react today in the modern world, the last thing that we need is the attitude that of Miky’s.

   

'Stroked' gift

A birthday burst for my sweet daughter Joanne. (Don’t mind each first letter of every line, please...)                         

Just you know my dear

On to you I conquered fear

Among all those dread

Nothing at all left them dead

Never ever giving up

Err wouldn’t make me stop

Jest and all won’t elude me

Over appreciation of your beauty

And the care that from you emanates

No one dare not appreciate

None of them will ask

Ending beauty such a task

I come in peace with humble heart

Love in keeps though worlds apart

Out on a limb but desperately

Volatile even unhappy

Ever for you loving one

Yes to you, considered done

On this special day of yours

Unto you, a happy birthday, of course!

Joanne

I would not dwell on where she got her looks and her intelligence. Everything came from her mom. Among them siblings, she was the hardest to come out of her mom’s womb. Her delivery was a heart-stopper to me as her mom’s blood pressure went down. But God showed me two things after that incident. He showed me to love more my family and to be thankful for this wonderful child He has given me. I admit that I fell short in achieving the first one but being thankful for this ever so-sweet, talkative, ‘hungry’ and gorgeous young girl is an achievement for me.

Again, tons of regret is what I feel now. I know soon that they’ll leave me. Her smile and our laughter together will soon be just vivid memories. Her kiss and warm embrace will soon fade but her daughterly care will forever made my heart.

Janus

I consider him to be the ‘’mini me’’. From the physical up to the emotional aspect, God must given up and got tired of where else to procure such feature to suit this creation of His that’s why He chose me.

Being a father to him is quite a job for me because it’s like looking everytime through a glass mirror. I cannot help but laugh at myself each moment I’m confronted by my childhood tantrums with his mere presence. An experience with his raw existence is more like having a chat with me. Jolly and quite emotional are among those traits we share.

I am likewise thankful for him for he somehow shows obedience, fear of God and his selfless care to others. I just hope that time could turn back its hands so that I could mentor him more the values and importance of living for yourself and for others as well.  

RJ

He was always one of my buddies. Though he was regarded as the naughty and bad one, his sweetness and his subjectivity overpowers those negative traits. Partly, everything he is now was because of my imperfect upbringing. The flaws exhibited were the times were unattended and unguarded. I thank the heavens for giving me a blessing just like my son and I just hope that he sees and realize my real situation.

Young and carefree as he maybe but I know that he has the sense of responsibility. I’m hoping the cloud of anger of his on me will soon be cleared away together with the winds of time. And wherever it leads us as father and son, I’ll still treat him as a dear one. As one of my buddies.  

   

Jasmin

Fearing it might be my last appreciation of her as she’s already bound to leave me (o the other way around) together with her equally endeared siblings; I just weaved a bursting wheelchaired emotion specially made for her in her last birthday. Spare me the flaws and the literary inadequacies. It’s a long hard climb to be in a Hemingway’s magnitude.

''I once knew a girl. She always brings a smile on my face.  An ardent deliverer of hope and peace in me.  She always manages me to get a grip of what is happening and focus my wholeness only to her.  The mere thought of her makes me think of how life has been good to me, being glad of knowing her.  From the moment I laid eyes and placed my caring arms around her when she was still a baby, and seeing the way she grew up to be fine young woman that she has become, everything was magic.  No doubt she’s really everyone wants to see and know. I know that I was not true to her since I was so selfish, not being able to be with her during those needed times.  I’m truthfully sorry for everything and I know now that she understands for she is truly a ‘’sign’’ for me. She and her siblings has always been an inspiration for me to go on with life. Having somebody like her in my life is unfathomable.  I am thankful to God for knowing and loving somebody like JASMIN. I LOVE YOU ANAK and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!''

Jasmin