The day has come

I've always been playing the part of mother dove:
giving advice, giving love and care, aplenty -
trying to be a living model for the young;
trying to do whatever that seems impossible -
to be a fighter, not a quitter,
for i know, deep down, the line that says:
"the true winner is not the one who wins -
but the one who does not quit"!

But lately, my little dove has raised herself -
and spread her wings, and flapped them hard,
and taught me to see the world in a different light:
to give to the world of needy kids - not just one
the love and care that i have, aplenty...
my little dove is telling me this:
to be magnanimous is to be unselfish -
and to put others' comforts before mine, always...

My little dove is telling me -
to raise above my own selfish needs and be free
to give to the world at large, who needs to be loved -
all the love that i have, not just to one...

My little dove has grown up -
with a very strong sense of what is right,
and what is certainly very, very wrong -
and telling me what i'm doing is so, so wrong:
to place my love on one lonely heart -
when the rest of the world needs it more...