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Angela's Word
When Angela was very young,
Age two
or three or so,
Her mother and her father
Taught her never to say
NO.
They taught her that she must agree
With everything they
said,
And if she didn't, she was spanked
And sent upstairs to
bed.
So Angela grew up to be
A most agreeable child;
She was
never angry
And she was never wild;
She always shared, she always
cared,
She never picked a fight,
And no matter what her parents
said
She thought that they were right.
Angela the Angel did very
well in school
And, as you might imagine, she followed every
rule,
Her teachers said she was so well-bred,
So quiet and so
good,
But how Angela felt inside
They never understood.
Angela
had lots of friends
Who liked her for her smile;
They knew she was
the kind of gal
Who'd go the extra mile;
And even when she had a
cold
And really needed rest,
When someone asked her if she'd
help
She always answered Yes.
When Angela was thirty-three, she was
a lawyer's wife.
She had a home and family, and a nice suburban
life.
She had a little girl of four
And a little boy of nine,
And
if someone asked her how she felt
She always answered, "Fine."
But
one cold night near Christmas time
When her family was in bed,
She
lay awake as awful thoughts
Went spinning through her head.
She
didn't know why, and she didn't know how,
But she wanted her life to
end;
So she begged Whoever put her here
To take her back
again.
And then she heard, from deep inside,
A voice that was soft
and low;
It only said a single word
And the word it said
was...NO.
From that moment on, Angela knew
Exactly what she had to
do.
Her life depended on that word
So this is what her loved ones
heard:
NO, I just don't want to;
NO, I don't agree;
NO, that's
yours to handle;
NO, that's wrong for me;
NO, I wanted something
else;
NO, that hurt a lot!
NO, I'm tired, and NO, I'm busy,
And
NO, I'd rather not!
Well, her family found it shocking,
Her friends
reacted with surprise;
But Angela was different, you could see it in
her eyes;
For they've held no meek submission
Since that night three
years ago
When Angela the Angel
Got permission to say NO.
Today
Angela's a person first, then a mother and a wife.
She knows where she
begins and ends,
She has a separate life.
She has talents and
ambitions,
She has feelings, needs and goals.
She has money in the
bank and
An opinion at the polls.
And to her boy and girl she
says,
"It's nice when we agree;
But if you can't say NO, you'll
never grow
To be all you're meant to be.
Because I know I'm
sometimes wrong
And because I love you so,
You'll always be my
angels
Even when you tell me NO."
~~~ Author Unknown~~~
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