Raw and incomparable pain
Forced you screaming into this night.
You fought with all your infant might
For safety in darkness again.
In shocked deliverance you lay,
New and bloodied like a small bird.
Your first breath sweeter than any word,
You took mine completely away.
In your newborn face, creased red-blue,
There craved the hand of mother-touch.
If my heart had felt this much
Before, it would have sung to you.
I gathered you close to my breast
And bathed in your newborn softness.
Calmed now, the spent lioness
Drifts contentedly to sweet rest.
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Tonight you are my whispered dream.
Tomorrow I shall breathe your smell
And touch your skin, while you compel
Me ever to this love supreme.
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