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Open Poetry #41

My Daughter, Sweet Caelin

FadingSun
Member

since 2000-05-01

Posts 76
Southern California

0 posted 2007-07-24 02:50 AM

Each night, as I lay you to sleep,
you kiss my eyes, and then my cheeks.
We sing of bitsy spiders and li'l twinkled stars,
-and I think-
do you know how beautiful you are?

I'm often scared I'll lose you someday,
It's proven a feeling that won't go away.
To live a life without your embrace,
-it would be-
like never seeing God's tender face.

Sweet Caelin, I love you a thousand times over,
a love as rare as the sweetest white clover.
And every fear that I've ever had,
-simply disappears-
When you say "I love you dad."

© Steve Nelson

In the sight of Love, fear isn't even as great as a single hair: in the law of Love, everything is offered as a sacrifice

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

1 posted 2007-07-24 09:18 AM

Oh... this is absolutely beautiful!!! What a lucky girl she is, to be so loved! *S*

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
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2 posted 2007-07-24 10:46 AM

we always fear losing our children

I have felt this with my two girls

growing older and into their own lives, making their own ways to travel...

wonderful poem that shows the love you feel so well

FadingSun
Member

since 2000-05-01

Posts 76
Southern California

3 posted 2007-07-25 04:07 AM

This poem really allowed me to come to terms with the fears that accompany the love one has for their children. But each time I re-read it, I feel a little more at peace about those fears.
Thank you

In the sight of Love, fear isn't even as great as a single hair: in the law of Love, everything is offered as a sacrifice

Susan Caldwell
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-12-27

Posts 8348
Florida

4 posted 2007-07-25 09:36 AM

there are so many fears...and things they go through that you cannot fix..

and? I have a 2 yr granddaughter and all the same fears..

this was beautiful.

"too bad ignorance isn't painful"
~Unknown~

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