Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. <br />They move on. They move away. <br />The moments that used to define them are covered by <br />moments of their own accomplishments. <br /><br />It is not until much later, that <br />children understand; <br />their stories and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories <br />of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, <br />beneath the water of their lives.