End of School Year

A poem of wonderment

Skye Nicholson
Being Known
Published in
1 min readMay 18, 2022

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Every year they surprise me
by getting longer.
When did she get the legs of a woman?
And him, with that smirk —
the one I saw on his dad when we first met.

While they thought I wasn’t watching,
they became their own people —
thinking thoughts they’ll never share,
knowing things I cannot guess.

I want them to run
as fast as they can,
fly to the top of mountains,
wave to me from the moon,
and be everything they’ve ever dreamed
and more.

Just not today.

As a mother of two young children, Skye Nicholson found freedom from alcohol addiction in 2018 and currently works as an empowerment coach, paying it forward by helping others to find freedom from what may be holding them back. Her first book of collected works, Unexpected Alchemy is available here.

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Skye Nicholson
Being Known

Woman, mom, teacher, writer, unicorn-lover, tree-hugger, magic-seeker, fox spirit, crier, human. Writing about life: my years of drinking and my awakening.