For any parent that has a child about to graduate or in my case marry and move away. This spoke to my heart today.
The Arrow and the Bow
Here is wisdom for the Moms and Dads
That time has proven true
The day your children learn to walk
They start to walk away from you
For at first you hold all of them
Cradled safely in your arms
Then one day their hand is all you’ll hold
Then soon it’s just their heart.
And there’ll even come the time
If your love for them is true
You’ll have to let their hearts go free
To let them love
Someone else not only you.
Can the sparrow ever learn to fly
If the nest is all it knows?
Can the arrow ever reach its mark
By remaining in the bow?
You have to let it go.
Here is wisdom for the Moms and Dads
That time has proven true
The day your children learn to walk
They start to walk away from you.
Steve Chapman
singer/writer