Indelible Moment

First, I held her.

My heart clearly holds
One moment,
One image etched on
memories retina

You are now grown,
Child and love of your own
You have experienced
Worlds I can only imagine

Yet minds distant eye
Still returns to that moment,
Holding you on my forearm,
Head in palm and feet pushing my breast

My heart, vulnerable to your
Slightest pain
I make the unkeepable promise
Parents are thankfully doomed to break

Life has now welcomed you
Into its waiting arms
Indelible moment
Has engraved my heart

11/02/2008

Reviews

[Kay]

This is sweet. There's a humility in the lines "You have experienced/Worlds I can only imagine" and an immense care when you write "My heart, vulnerable to your/Slightest pain".

[AllenS]

Thank you Kay.it was written 10 years ago on her birthday. These were tender, moving memories.