They Are

We want our children to be like us,
But they aren't.
They are alive in other ways
That we could never invent.
They crawl.
They toddle.
They run.
And eventually find their own ways of walking,
And then we see
The things about ourselves that we don't like.
And then we pray
That our children won't be anything like us,
But they are.

-jenn long