If Today...

If today I would be given the chance

To go back in our lives,

I would most certainly

Go back, to when you were four years old

To be able to sit you on my lap,

Sing you “blue eyes, the baby’s got blue eyes”,

Tickle you making you giggle silly,

Tell you foolish stories in bed

Till both of us would be out of breath laughing,

As if we were two happy kids of the same age,

And while grandma would pass through the corridor

Asking through our closed bedroom door “o que é que se passa aí?”

We would even giggle and laugh more, for no reason

No reason at all, other than, what we both, had well in common:

Unconditional love…

It’s obvious I cannot go back to when you were four.

And neither of us can ever erase mistakes made,

But we are only human, and it’s normal to make mistakes.

What would not be normal, would be

Not to recognize them nor  make mends,

But that we’ve done, thanks to the love of God,

And so, we are finally smiling, at peace with, and still with:

Unconditional love…

Learning through our mistakes

Gives us experience on how to deal with others

How to rearrange, or put in order our good or bad feelings

Make us learn that God is Love,

Therefore He wants us to love not hate.

Living and practicing all these facts of life

Make us become stronger, more secure

And certainly aware

Of what we’ve never lost, never harmed, never forgot,

And had always in common:

Unconditional love…

(para a minha filha)

Gina

Março de 2004