I want you.
Not the frills and things, you offer me.
I want you.
Not your money
Yes, your time.
Yes, your presence.
Yes, your smile.
Yes, your whole being!
I want you to inhabit the moment.
Share your brokenness, your mistakes.
I want you to show me how to laugh at myself when I fail.
Share your discouragement and comeback moments, after failing.
Teach me how to love me.
I learn when I see the way you love yourself.
I see it in the way you interact with me.
So, be entirely and naturally you.
That way, dear parent, I will finally be me.