Parenting

The goal
Of parenting
Is to let go and
Not to hold on to
The grown-up child.
It is to tell the child the
Goal from the start so they
Know the are supposed to leave
Home to make their own way
Alone or as a couple and
To be a good person
Of virtue but hard
When necessary
Considerate of
Others but to
Themselves
As well so
If they
Have
Kids
They can
Be good parents.
Bitter is the taste of
A parent who cannot let
Their child alone but wants
To treat them as a child past
The age of 18 monopolizing their
Child’s time and attention like
A first-stage rocket that
Does not detach and
Fall away to allow
Their child to
Achieve
Orbit.
Oh child
Of such a
Parent drop
Them and walk
Away ignoring their
Pleas for attention you
Had better use on your other
Self with whom you build a life.