“And then the kids start getting married. As parents, we worry, and don’t want them to leave. We still feel responsible … but they enter a new life. That life is only partially without us … because we’re still there in places they don’t know and cannot yet understand.“

Dear girl, you wrote a note to say
	In words so sweet to me
That on this very special day
	Your own ship puts to sea

No more you’ll travel on my boat?
	I guess that might be so
There’s something, though, while on that note
	I think you need to know

I’ve snuck aboard your ship … so bold!
	If needed, where I’ll be
Is deep within the vessel’s hold
	That extra anchor’s me!