On the date,
I was departing this life
You were born
I gave birth to this "SUN"
Your cry brought me back alive
Brighten my day
I called you my child
Hid your birth
Out of sight
Inside my vein
Held your soul
So many times
Never held you
Once in my arm
Waves of my soul
Embraced your sun
I called you my child
Could not conceptualize
Any other name
For the ache
That is the same
~*~
I called you my child
For the struggles
To preserve my pride
I called my child
For failing to leave you behind
Abandoning you inside
Again and again
Your Love I retain
Missing my own train
Stopping my plane
Bringing the cloud of rain
To ease your pain
~*~
I called you my child
Could not move on with life
Without stopping and wondering
With questions burning within
How you became all the past
That lead to this present
~*~
I called you my child
Bcause you know
In your heart
What it’s all about
~*~
I called you my child
Because you are
My favorite father’s child
And I am
Your father’s favorite child
I called you my child
Every time I turn my back
I hear your cry
He brings you to my dreams
Reaching out to hold my hand
I called you my child
The most honest feeling to be
~*~
I called you my child
A permission to Love you forever
I called you my child
Your cry I feel in my heart
Your ache I carry inside
I called you my child
For your safety I fear
I called my child
For the prayer said
To protect your path
Guard your future
I called you my child
Blocking any way
To alter this love
For my father and his child
For no matter what they say
For no matter what you do
Now and for ever you will be
In my heart
Bcause I know deep inside
You’re forgiven anyway
~*~
I spoke to the moon at night
Asking him, is my child alright?
Why I am missing
Always that part
I thought it was
Buried deep in the ground
Bearing him was
Ever the hardest part
Why I am sitting here
Forever waiting
For something to hear
You’re so innocent
From this love, my dear,
This guilt you must not bear
You’re not to be blamed
For the mother ache
Nor you need to stop
Catching your train
I love you anyway
My dearest child
~*~
If you were asked
Obliged to clear
Just tell them, my dear,
It was only a mother
Going restless
Forgetting herself
With her overprotecting
Sixth sense
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This poem is so beautifully done. Your feelings and your heart show through your poem. Excellent work. Bill Murray