You think when you become a parent you put your needs second to theirs.
But instead you take them for granted because they're always there.
You're human and you hurt. You're selfish and you forget.
They are watching everything that's a part of you and me.
They don't learn what they're told they do what they see.
If you're in pain you might forget theirs.
You make bad decisions and of your mistakes you make them your heirs.
The sins of the father (or mother) are visited upon the sons (or the daughters)
We don't notice till it's too late, we've taught them to sin and to hate.
It's us they hate but love at the same time.
We punish these children and don't notice till we're past our prime.
We can only hope they'll forgive because forgetting would be to say that they've never lived.