She Can Still Dream

I can tell in her voice
she wants more for her life.
Right now she is the
faithful wife and
loving mother that
she feels she needs to be.

But I know her all too well.
I know there’s a side to her
that wants to let loose,
a side that wants to express
with reckless abandon
and without boundaries.

But I know her all too well.
There’s always been a thing
or things that kept her from
going all out with her emotions,
letting go of inhibitions,
and being every bit of the woman

that she desires to be.
But there’s a hint of resignation
in her voice that says
the days of the reckless abandon
and the letting loose
may be just a thing of the past,

something only she can pass on
to her children, hoping they will
live with the ability of
chasing their own destinies with
reckless abandon and
without inhibitions.

Maybe then she can see in their eyes
the light that still shines in hers
and that no matter how
much time and circumstance says
where her place is supposed to be,
she can still dream.