A Prayer For Parents

A Prayer For Parents

O! Give me patience when little hands,

Tug at me with ceaseless small demands.

O! Give me gentle words and smiling eyes,

And keep my lips from hasty sharp replies.

Let me not in weariness, confusion or noise,

Obscure my vision from life's few fleeting joys.

Then when in years to come, my home is still,

No bitter memories, its rooms may fill.

-Author Unknown