Everyday holds new beginnings. Everyday holds new adventures. It's a<BR> struggle through life that is the hardest to overcome.<P> Some people don't like change. Some people think they can change others. But<BR> what we all need to learn and understand is that a person has to change on his<BR> or her own. If you love a person enough, you will want to change to make them<BR> happy. But only if the change is for the better. I know you can never make a<BR> person do what they don't want them to.<P> Sometimes change is inevitable. A person may not seem to be the same person<BR> you first met. They change with the times. Everyone says, "Look at their<BR> childhood" "Look at how they were raised" "they will grow up to be just like<BR> their parents" But will they? How do you know? Life has no guarantees.<P> But you can manipulate your own future. You can make sure your own<BR> children don't grow up to be like that. You only live one life.. Live it happy..<P>------------------<BR>Rainy

Rainy,<P>I read your "Inevitable Change" when you had posted it earlier to another forum. Over the past too many years I have spent numerous hours reading poetry of all kinds because I feel that poetry is to vocabulary as our eyes are to our soul - a window through which we open ourselves, willingly or not, to the rest of the world. "Inevitable Changes" is certainly full of wonderful hope and speaks glowing praises of your deep commitment to your children. Your loving tenderness is remarkable given what you have had to endure in the past. I pray that you are finally walking a path with fewer thorns pricking at your soul and that you are recovering from whatever evils may have befallen you in your earlier life. Your children are truly blessed to have a Mom as devoted as you. You really are a tender soul!