The greatest gift
\nby cricketjeff on September 6, 2008.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<\/p>\n
He raised her high so all could see
\nBut in a crystal cage
\nAnd praised her in his poetry
\nThe wonder of the age
\nHe said that she was all his life
\nYet kept her trapped within
\nWas this the way to treat a wife
\nOr was it mortal sin<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 She laid a trap, her love the bait
\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And waited in her lair
\n \u00a0 \u00a0 He’d never guess his final fate
\n \u00a0 \u00a0 ‘Til she cut off his air
\n \u00a0 \u00a0 She said that she would always love
\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Yet wanted just to own
\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Her touch was iron inside a glove
\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Her heart was made of stone<\/p>\n
I see each story in the art
\nBut which of them is true?
\nWhich lover takes the victim’s part
\nAnd which of them is you
\nNot everything is black and white
\nThere’s colours and there’s grey
\nSometimes both sides may be quite right
\nMost lives are built this way<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 Your Mother’s view is not the same
\n \u00a0 \u00a0 She doesn’t have your eyes
\n \u00a0 \u00a0 It doesn’t mean that she’s to blame
\n \u00a0 \u00a0 I’m pretty sure she tries
\n \u00a0 \u00a0 I have four children of my own
\n \u00a0 \u00a0 And sometimes we agree
\n \u00a0 \u00a0 Their views have changed as they have grown
\n \u00a0 \u00a0 They’re not the same as me<\/p>\n
It’s very hard, for young and old
\nTo walk another’s road
\nSome metal bars are purest gold
\nSome just a heavy load
\nThere’s just one thing you should recall
\nWhen she is smart or dumb
\nI bet she’ll love you through it all
\nYour Mum is still your Mum!
\n Author notes
\nAlix, a note to you, I am an “old fart” my youngest child is now 18, I can see
\nhow people my age see things, I can ask my children how people their age see
\nthings, but the only way I can know what you know and see and feel is if you
\ntell me, so I would be especially grateful for your views on what I write.<\/p>\n
The title refers to this Scottish saying:-<\/p>\n
The greatest gifts the gods could gie us
\nTo see ourselves as others see us<\/p>\n
Mairi bheag reminds me (I should have remembered, I don’t foget much poetry)<\/p>\n
It’s Robert Burns! And it runs thus:<\/p>\n
“Oh wad some pow’r the giftie gie us
\nTo see oursel’s as ithers see us!
\nIt wad frae monie a blunder free us,
\nAnd foolish notion.”<\/p>\n
It’s from his poem on seeing a louse on the bonnet of a young lady in the kirk.<\/p>\n
If you are going to teach a young lady from Nevada a Scottish saying, please
\ngive it correctly, and cite the source, ma mannie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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