Trying to guide

With guiding hand and loving heart
I offer you this life advice
I wish for you a peaceful path
With much ease and tranquillity
I try to teach you this my child
But all you see is that I criticize.

Perhaps I need to learn
To guide a little gentler
Sometimes just to leave you be
To get the lesson on your own
I’m trying not to let you fall
But maybe that is how you grow.

Debbie Gravett © 2017.02.13

via Daily Prompt: Criticize