The Illusion Of Progress Poem by Tara Nugent

The Illusion Of Progress



Looking back to those days long gone,
Seventeen and knowing it all,
What could you have told me,
Other than what I didn’t already know.

Looking forward I can now see,
What you strived so hard to pass on,
I’m trapped now,
A trap I set for myself.

How to spring that trap,
The more I fight the tighter it grips,
The more I relax the more I feel the pain,
There must be a way out....

I’d forgotten,
Them,
The kids,
They are the answer.

They are what it was all about,
It was never a trap,
It was an unobserved opportunity,
That was staring me in the face.

I look at them now,
How could I ever have missed that wonder,
That resides in their eyes,
Still so sheltered from life’s brutalities.

That’s my purpose,
To gently ease them into it! ,
To lead them forward in a way that does not scar,
To make sure they know without being marred.

What a weight,
Has any parent managed it yet?
Yet I will strive for my new goal,
My kids will not be broken.

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