Caring
I tend to my mother's caring call,
Early mornings,
Get out of bed slowly.
I get to her,
She looks at me with her fulfiling smile.
I know she is struggling with great difficulty,
Even though i know my responsibility my mother is always there,
I try not to show her how stressed I am
I go off to school, still worried
I don't want to go but it makes her happy,
I want to be successful in the future,
When i am older i want to work with children.
But today I care for my mother.
A Good Day
The good days are great, everyone laughing and joking,
No-one is ill, being rushed to hospital with a temperature that has the potential to kill.
There's no hospital everyday for months on end, the tears aren't there, no need to console anyone today.
Becasue today is a good day!
We went to the zoo today,
All of us,
The whole family,
We saw the monkeys and the lions and the birds, all those animals, and smiles all round.
The weather was glorious that day, we didn't care that people pointed and stared because today we got to be like most other families,
To laugh and joke, and smile and be happy.
We didn't think of the illness, the disease, the disability.
Because today was a good day!
