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Three AM, another cry Rock them back to sleep, don’t ask why First steps, first words, watching them grow Teaching them everything we know
Scraped knees and bedtime stories told Holding on while letting go
It’s worth the pain Every sleepless night Worth the pain Watching them take flight From the first breath to the last goodbye We give them roots so they can fly Worth the pain
Homework battles, teenage doors slammed shut Eye rolls and silence cutting deep “You don’t understand,” they say We just smile, we were them yesterday
Let them fail, let them fall Be there if they call
It’s worth the pain Every fight, every tear Worth the pain Even when they disappear We teach them strength, we show them how To stand alone, we’re teaching them now Worth the pain
Then one day the house goes quiet Their room stays clean, we don’t deny it The calls get shorter, less frequent now They’ve got their life, we taught them how
And suddenly we understand What our parents felt back then We left them too, we lived our lives This is the gift, this is the price
Empty nest and photographs Memories of growing up so fast We wait by phones that rarely ring But that’s the point of everything
We raised them not to need us here That’s love, that’s what we engineered
It’s worth the pain Every sacrifice we made Worth the pain Watching them not be afraid We gave them wings, we let them soar That’s what we were fighting for Worth the pain
Just like we did to ours The circle turns, it’s in the stars Worth every moment, every scar That’s what parents are