Child

How do you describe

Your love for your child?

 

Is it an action �"

What you might or would do

Through the perils of fiery circumstance?

 

Is it that feeling:

A yawning cry

From the heart

For someone

So very special to you?

 

Is it that look;

Those eyes that when synched up

With yours, you tingle

To see,

And look into with wonder

Asking nothing but to be close, locked,

And thus free?

 

Is it watching

In innocent pride

Each step into the world

The brave child makes,

Or the tears of horror

When they fall,

And that hopeful stride

Suddenly breaks?

 

Is it the knowledge,

At once surely found

Of the rightness of family,

Of a true other,

Truly found?

Or those giggles

Of laughter,

A dandelion,

Careless sunshine reflected,

Found strewn

On home-spun ground?

 

Love.

So strange to have one word

To cover so much,

So many aspects of what has been

Nothing short of

A body-aching emergence,

Profound enough

That loneliness,

And the clawed cruelty of the world

Sit back opposed

To a different truth,

Full of meaning and hope:

Us, greatly human at last,

On solid, shared,

Blood-red ground.

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

A well-written poem. Pen on...:)..................................

[andpoems.com]

Thanks Sami - much appreciated. Glad you liked it...

[Sami Khalil]

I did. Muchly welcome...:).................