LABOR PAINS
The
daughter did have labor pains, and so did Mommy too.
While
daughter bore the baby, teacher-mommy got the screw.
Another
mommy was enraged when daughter did get caught
by building
staff and little kids, her fingers in the pot.
“I will not
let you discipline this little child of mine.
If you
would just let her be, she’ll grow up oh so fine.”
“She needs
to be accountable,” the mommy-teacher said.
“For if she
doesn’t learn it now, I’m afraid of what’s ahead.”
But other
mommy did not want to hear what teacher said.
So off she
went to do her in--she went above her head.
The
administrators when they heard a teacher had said, “No!”
to a parent
with a child who needed to be taken in
tow,
thought
long and hard for a moment before deciding that
the teacher
with over twenty years could not be at the bat.
For she
must be the one to blame for being oh so bold
to tell a
mother that her child wasn’t doing what she was told.
So
mommy-teacher labored that week of many a meeting,
when
higher-ups who’d never taught
considered
her unseating.
However
much they thought they helped,
it came at
quite a cost.
The mommy
and the higher-ups had doomed the child—
she
lost.
There is a
child who will be saved, the one who just was born.
The one who
greeted teacher-mom that very special morn.
His grandma
is a gutsy gal, the one who will say no,
even to her
own grandson, so that she can watch him grow
into a caring,
loving man who knows when not to fight,
and ‘fesses up and takes his licks when he isn’t
right.
Written by Beth M Good
for a friend
2003
