Just a Poem

We love our children when they're good,

But when they're bad, in trouble,

For reasons barely understood

We love them almost double.

We love our children when they want

Affection and expect it,

And even more, those times they taunt

Our loving and reject it.

We love them when they make us cry

And when you'd think we daren't,

And no one knows the reason why,

Except another parent.

~Richard Armour