My Child...

**okcsuzq Admin** Thu Jun 24, 2010 6:04 pm

My Child

Another night, I just can't sleep
No rest to be found in my bed
Your laughing eyes and smiling face
Keep running circles in my head

I picture you about age twelve
Then six, three, and finally one
Always happy, always smiling
No warning of what was to come

In anger and rage you turned away
You had no one to blame but me
Then you closed your heart and mind
Seeing me as your enemy

I don't want to be your monster
Or the person you most despise
I don't want to know you're hurting
Or imagine I hear your cries

It hurts to think of you lonely
Or think you might be in pain
Whatever age you are my child
A fact that can never be changed

It's hard to explain the way I feel
How lost and unhappy I am
My love for you will never leave
So to this misery I am damned

Susan Palmer-Davis
1/1997
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