parenting

Parenting

is a life long lesson we never master 

It's aspiration defined:

to understand my kid better, 

to do right by him

as we do wrong again and again 

and riddle ourselves with questions

on how to do better 

We think we know so much

only to learn how little we know

when it comes to teenagers,

who hear one thing when we say another.

For now,

I aspire to speak his language.