Thanks
by Laura Moleta, New Zealand
"Thanks for the big things
like the hugs and the love and
for the small things like the smiles and the waves
With all your help I grow stronger each day
Thanks for your patience
your advice and your understanding
and the chances to let all my jumbled emotions
The release I get from your presence when I’m in a bad way
Thanks for believing,
for never letting me down and all those times you
protected me when my sky began to rain
You never gave up trying to convince me that everything would be OK.
Thanks for the hope
as well as the power to proceed and being my
Voice when I was wordless, the lighter of my dark and
the encouragement to survive.
Thanks for everything, everything you’ve all done
Thanks for making me realise – I have a right
to be here, and on ever bigger right –
to stay."
Benjamin says: "WE LOVE YOU LAURA, KNOW THAT."
