I Can Move Mountains

As stubborn as my daughter can be She wouldn't move She stayed in her room and cried I peeked inside her room And imagined I would see a young doe Wide-eyed and with tears Peeking back at me between the trees Instead, I saw her Barbie Dolls holding the fort, angrily Standing guard around her bed With her teddy bear and my daughter Hiding under the covers What was supposed to be her first day of school With her new dress, new shoes, and new backpack ready She wouldn't move For she was scarred Like a shaking tree And we were both lost in the forest of our lives With her tree scheduled to branch And stretch and grow But didn't, momentarily Between us, we were both getting schooled in life And nature And the fortress that was hard to overcome For there stood a mountain that wouldn't move And a mountain that needed to be moved One pebble, one stone, one boulder, one hill At a time, motherly, and patiently For I was the one who was up for the challenge Of moving that first pebble For I called her school and doctor for help That saw me on the altar of my life Praying that there be a clearing A path out of the lost forest With bluer skies ahead of us With the unmoveable mountain being an aberration On that second day The sun indeed shinned She took that first step With her Barbie Dolls beautiful again