Turning eighteen

My dearly beloved son,
today you turned eighteen
It seems like only yesterday
I first lay ed eyes upon your face serene

So many years have come and gone,
most of them you spent in bed
Always nursing you, cried for you
the countless tears that I have shed....

I always believed in you,
defended and encouraged you
Knowing that some day your health
would return and you would pull through

And look what a fine young man
you have turned out to be!
In your final exams and in a few
months off to university!

We proved them wrong, my love
showed them who's boss, now..didn't we?
I always knew you would come out on top
and make me the proudest mum in history!