Scrapbook Supplies: • 3 Bugs in a Rug • 7 Gypsies SALE • Adhesives & Removers • American Crafts • Amy Butler Collection SALE • Autumn Leaves • Basic Grey • Bazzill Basics SALE • Bo Bunny • Books & Scrapbooking Magazines • Cathy Claire Boyd Collection SALE • Clearance • Clearance - Stations Customize Cards • Collections • Cosmo Cricket • Coud 9 Designs • Crate Paper • Daisy Bucket Designs • Deja Views • Disney SALE • Doodlebug Designs • EK Success • Embellishments • Fancy Pants • Flair Designs SALE • Hambly Studios • Heidi Grace Designs • Heidi Swapp SALE • Imaginisce • Jolee's Boutique • K & Co SALE • Kaiser Craft • Karen Foster SALE • Kelly Panacci Collection • KI Memories • Little Yellow Bicycle • Love Elsie • Luxe Designs • Making Memories • Maya Road • Moxxie • My Mind's Eye • Other Products • Paper (Scrapbook Paper) SALE • Pens & Pencils • Pink Paislee • Quickutz SALE • Reminisce • Scenic Route Paper Co. • Scrapbook Kits • Scrapbooking Tools • ScrapWorks • SEI • Stamps - Rubber, Clear & Foam • Stickers SALE • Technique Tuesday CLEARANCE • Tim Holtz • Tinkering Ink • Transparencies   Scrapbooking Ideas: • Scrapbook Layouts • Scrapbook Testimonials • Scrapbook Sayings & Quotes Links: • Scrapbook Expo and Convention • Scrapbooking Sites and Links • Site Map Payment Methods:

I Do Not Wish to Take Your Mother's Place Alpha List Graduation Poems Poems to Children Poems to Other Family Members Teen Poems Contents Home All poems: copyright by Nicholas Gordon Free scrapbook poems permission to use provided by the author. I do not wish to take your mother's place, And yet my pride and pleasure are no less. You may not be the daughter of my flesh, But you are still the daughter of my heart. I know my very presence in your life Can't help but to remind you of the pain And anger of your parents' separation. And yet my only purpose here is love. Stepmothers and stepdaughters are a pair Created both by joy and by disaster. We did not choose each other, but were chosen By love and by the anguish of love's end. But we can choose to love each other well, Accepting fortune's gift with unfeigned grace. Know as you step forth this graduation: You have my love as long as life permits. [contents] [home]