You wait for them to smile, as you wait for sleep through the night.
You wait for first words, as you wait for them to walk.
You wait for preschool, college, graduation, job.
All that waiting takes its toll.

Until you look about one morning and realise that they’ve gone.

Henry is a poet from Somerset in the UK. His work has appeared perviously in 50WS.

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