I hadn't read the Kahlil Gibran poem before and wish I had. I plan to include it in a card for new parents with some of these books as a gift. My daughters love to double up with Love You Forever and Someday. They seem to enjoy hearing my voice crack and watching me stop to compose myself. Someday is by Alison McGhee and Peter H. Reynolds:
What every mother (every parent!) wishes for her child is a chance to live life at its fullest--to experience great joys, to stretch, to grow, to understand sorrow, to have a future...to have a someday.
Excerpts
One day I counted your fingers and kissed each one.
One day the first snowflakes fell, and I held you up and watched them melt on your baby skin.
One day we crossed the street and you held my hand tight. Then, you were my baby and now you are my child.
Sometimes, when you sleep, I watch you dream, and I dream too...
That someday you will dive into the cool, clear water of a lake...
Someday you will run so far and so fast your heart will feel like fire.
Someday I will watch you brushing your child's hair.
It ends with:
Someday, a long time from now, your own hair will glow silver in the sun. And when that day comes, love, you will remember me.
