Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site charm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!mhuxj!mhuxi!charm!eokane From: eokane@charm.UUCP (Evan Kane) Newsgroups: net.poems,net.kids Subject: empty nest syndrome Message-ID: <280@charm.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 20:39:15 EST Article-I.D.: charm.280 Posted: Tue Mar 20 20:39:15 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 21-Mar-84 08:17:51 EST Organization: Physics Research - AT&T Bell Labs MH Lines: 30 First Sunday in Christ Church Nursery Grandchildren nowhere to be seen, Children rejecting Love's once warm garment grown too tight. Then this announcement: "Staff overwhelmed by babies tears, Caregivers needed" Shyly,unsurely, I respond Fish out of water. Parents persuading by the door, Needing their freedom, Leaving their children here with me Time never ending. Gently I hold till pain abates Tense body softens Yielding in trust to my embrace Head on my shoulder. And children never seen before, No kinship holding, Belong to me for one brief hour Oh, unexpected magic revelation! Evan Kane 3/20/84