My dearest daughter,

Just something I wrote with the love for my baby girl in mind.

Your first smile was the purest happiness I've seen.

Before I held you it teased every dream.

Your first laugh was a rainbow of sounds meant for me.

I never knew this was what motherhood would be.

 

So young and unready, troubled and blue.

But the reason for my sadness could not have been you.

Just the worry that maybe I wouldn't give you it all.

Inside my heart was frozen with fear and so small.

 

I carried you and sang, sang so bright and so merry.

I laughed and I cried and names? There were so many!

A hope and a puzzle inside me so strong.

I thought it would be hard but I was so very wrong.

 

It's so easy to wrap my arms round you and kiss your little head.

It's so easy to calm you and rock you to sleep and to bed.

It's so easy to clean you and dress you in pink.

It's so easy to play with you and laugh when you stink.

 

Your innocence is baffling but sweetened with love.

The purpose you bring me simply fits like a glove.

I write you this poem to treasure and consider.

The warnings I give you forever held in this letter.

 

Don't be feared of the dark.

Don't ever cry on your own.

Don't hate how life is,

just let it be shown.

Don't think I would leave you.

Don't wander to the park.

Don't ever feel your heart break

and don't even let it start.

Don't think that I hate you.

and please don't hate me.

Just listen and learn and I'll let you be.

 

I will say all these things and so many more.

It's just because I love you,

like my mother said before.

It'll be so difficult and frightening when your older.

But I'll always be with you, feel your pain on my shoulders.

 

There was a connection, a bond and a feeling so deep.

When I first saw your little fingers and tickled your little feet.

When I felt that thud of a kick underneath the skin.

When you turned your head and listened within.

 

My truth and my reason I knew you were mine.

But with you I feel I have so little time.

Forever isn't enough to cuddle you close.

Compared to any other I love you the most.

 

Never forget that.

Author's Note

For a competition, 'Letter to a loved one.'

Reviews

[Schnookums]

i love this, very much. It has shown me exactly what it's like to be a mum, to have that tiny life growing inside you and the joy it can bring. I loved the section of advice, i remember my mum doing the same thing... its such a shame my relationship with my mum has distanced...

on the actual poem itself, i love the rhyming structure and think you're very good at keeping it up (i would have given up half way through :L), well done.
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