The girl I use to be!

Lately I have been feeling like I am not doing anything that I had dreamed of doing when I was younger...I wanted to travel the world, write an amazing book (like TWILIGHT!!) and be an amazing photographer!! I wanted to go to college and be as carefree as possible!! Of course my life now is far from the life I had imagined those cloud-gazing days!! But still when I really think about it, or read poems like the one below (that my friend Krystal posted on Myspace), I realize my life is worth so much more then I could have ever dreamed!! So this is for the mommies!!

She came tonight as I sat alone
The girl I used to be.
And she gazed at me with her earnest eye
and questioned reproachfully:
Have you forgotten the many plans
And hopes I had for you?
The great career, the splendid fame,
All the wonderful things to do?
Where is the mansion of stately height
with all its gardens rare?
The silken robes that I dreamed for you
and the jewls in your hair?
And as she spoke, I was very sad,
or I wanted her to be pleased with me,
This slender girl from the shadowy past
The girl I used to be.
So gently rising, I took her hand
and guided her up the stairs
Where peacefully sleeping, my babies lay,
Innocent, sweet, and fair.
And I told her that these are my gems,
And precious they are to me,
That silken robes is my motherhood
Of costly simplicity.
And my mansion of stately height is love,
And the only career I know
Is serving each day in these sheltered
walls
For the dear ones who come and go
And as I spoke to my shadowy guest,
She smiled through her tears at me.
And I saw the women that I am now
Pleased the girl I used to be.