of all the things I once called home,
of expectations I once had,
of why I felt so sadly sad,
I wondered.
I sat for hours trying to understand
why life had been so underhand,
why expectations once more failed,
and happiness again curtailed,
I wondered.
We tried so hard to get it right,
then when we did we had to fight,
for someone we'd been dreaming of,
for someone we had longed to love,
and wondered.
From the start it all went wrong,
to dull our bright parental song,
but we waited and we prayed and hoped,
and wondered how we ever coped,
and wondered and wondered