I Do Not Wish to Take Your Mother's Place

Music: Lord Franklin. Sequenced by Barry Taylor.

Alpha List Graduation Poems Poems to Children Poems to Other Family Members Teen Poems About This Site Poems for Free Copyright by Nicholas Gordon

I do not wish to take your mother's place, And yet my pride and pleasure are no less. You may not be the daughter of my flesh, But you are still the daughter of my heart. I know my very presence in your life Can't help but to remind you of the pain And anger of your parents' separation. And yet my only purpose here is love. Stepmothers and stepdaughters are a pair Created both by joy and by disaster. We did not choose each other, but were chosen By love and by the anguish of love's end. But we can choose to love each other well, Accepting fortune's gift with unfeigned grace. Know as you step forth this graduation: You have my love as long as I have life.