Adelene_Tan

Last edited by Adelene Tan on October 8, 2011, 3:21 pm

Resting on a lounge chair next to a pool
The weather sunny and bright
With songs from my ipod
So soothing and calm

There was a fountain big and tall
In the middle of the pool it stood
Its water dropping from its height
Creating melodious music of its kind

I must have dozed off
Only to be woken up
By the fine water mist
Blown towards my face

I opened my eyes
And saw right in front of me
A spectacular rainbow
So beautiful and hypnotizing

God must have known I needed it
To send a rainbow so cheery
To give me a reason to smile
When I was feeling down and out

He must have wanted to see
The look on my face
When He quietly sang to me
A message so true and uplifting

Look at the colours of the rainbow
Look on the bright side of life
Each day has many different colouring
So your life’s a rainbow too

Last edited by Adelene Tan on September 19, 2011, 10:42 pm

You asked me to hold your hand
And said you love me the most
You gave me a kiss on my lips
And hugged me so tightly
I felt the warmth of your love
So genuine, gentle and pure

I held your tiny hand
With fingers interlocked
And I said I love you the most too
In the dimmed light I whispered goodnight
I watched you closed your eyes
As you wandered off to dreamland

Sleep well, my darling
I prayed for you a dream so sweet
That can make you laugh and giggle
A dream all 3-year-olds can enjoy
Of slides and swings
Water-plays and sand castles
Ice-creams and candies
Balloons and toys

As your grip grew softer
I still held on
I hope you know
You can trust these hands
And the heart behind these hands
In every moment of your life
In every cry and laughter

As the years go by
And as you experience life
At its best and worst
You’ll never forget these words
I don’t only love you the most at bedtime
But I love you the most every time and every day

Last edited by Adelene Tan on August 8, 2011, 10:18 pm

Snapshot of life
My 3-year-old daughter and her 62-dollar-cry

I carried her to her doctor
Because she refused to walk
While waiting
She wailed and cried
So loudly
The nurses kept asking me why
I said she might have a splinter in her right foot

The nurses came
One by one
And saw only a red dot
They gave her sweets
Oh believe me
She got more sweets than she bargained for

She wanted me to hold her right foot
While she cried some more
I kept saying,’Hush, hush’
‘The doctor will see you soon’
So I held her tiny foot in my palm
Until her name was called

The doctor examined her foot
And said, ‘No splinter, just a superficial laceration’
I asked, ‘No foreign body?’
He said, ‘No, just a small dot of blood’

I carried her home
And laid her down on the sofa
I told her to rest
And I went into the kitchen
I turned around a few minutes later
Only to find her happily playing
Walking and jumping
She said, ‘Look Mommy, no more pain’

I thought to myself
I spent 50 dollars on a doctor’s consult
And 12 dollars on an antibiotic cream
All because she wailed and cried
But wouldn’t 62 dollars be all worth it
If it allayed a mother’s anxious heart
When her child is sick or in pain
Especially so
If the child had wailed and cried

Last edited by Adelene Tan on November 18, 2011, 6:38 pm