Just
for this morning, I will let you wake up softly,
all rumpled in your flannel and I will hold you
until you are ready.
Just for this
morning, I will let you choose what you want to
wear, and smile and say you're
beautiful.
Just for this morning, I
am going to step over the laundry, and pick you
up and take you to the park to
play.
Just for this morning, I am
going to eat a huge breakfast, with bacon, eggs,
toast and waffles and you don't have to eat
any.
Just for this morning, I will leave
the dishes in the sink, and let you teach me how
to put that 100 piece puzzle
together.
Just for this afternoon,
I will unplug the telephone and keep the
computer off, and sit with you in the garden
blowing bubbles.
Just for this
afternoon, I will not yell once, not even a tiny
grumble when you scream and whine for the ice
cream truck, and I will buy you one if he comes
by.
Just for this afternoon, I
won't worry about what you are going to be when
you grow up or who you might have been before
your diagnosis.
Just for this
afternoon, I will let you help me bake cookies,
and I won't stand over you trying to fix
things.
Just for this afternoon, I
will let you put all kinds of barrettes in my
hair, and put lipstick on my face, and I will
tell you how pretty you have made me
look.
Just for this afternoon, I will
take you to McDonalds and buy us both a Happy
Meal so you can have both
toys.
Just for this evening, I will
hold you in my arms and tell you a story about
how you were born, and how much we love
you.
Just for this evening, I will
let you splash in the bathtub and not get angry
when you throw water over your sister's
head.
Just for this evening, I will
let you stay up late while we sit on the porch
swing and count all the stars.
Just
for this evening, I will bring you glasses of
water and snuggle beside you for three hours and
miss my favorite show on t.v.
Just
for this evening, when I kneel down to pray, I
will simply be grateful for all that I have and
not ask for anything, except
Just
one more day.
Sally
Meyer © 'For
Dhylan'
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