Your children can make you happy

Your children can make you sad

Your children can make you very proud

but sometimes they just make you mad

 

Without them my life would be empty

the future would be very bleak

The love and respect of my children

is the solace in life that I seek

 

Their partners and children show loving

they travel for miles to the hospital to say

I hope that you’ll soon be much better

and with us you can come and stay

 

Perhaps these sentiments sound very soppy

Though often enough is not said

You must tell them often that you ‘love them’

Never leave these words ‘taken as read’