a hundred hearts

author unknown

Nothing could ever fully prepare you

for the love you feel for your child.

You think you get the idea,

until you have one,

and then it's something you cannot ever fully and truly put into words.

It's a priceless, precious thing

which is hard to explain.

And just when you think you have that love all sussed out,

they go and do something

which just sends more love bursting through you

when you wouldn't have thought it possible

that you could ever love them any more.

Sometimes those moments lie in the milestones,

which see your gushing with pride

that your offspring has done something so amazing.

At other times it's in the simplest of things,

like a captured moment,

a precious second where you see your family from the outside, 

you see how other people see it,

and you can't believe that it's all yours.