Mothers Child

With a soft mewing cry

The babe began its life

Separate from the warmth

Of its mothers womb

Oh beautiful child

Held gently in caring arms

You have all of life

Now ahead of you

Tiny fingers grasping

Rosebud lips suckling

The babe rocked in its mother's arms

Nurtured away from the world around

Unknown to both mother and child

The years will race away from them

And fates will intervene

Tossing aspirations to the ground

Pains will outweigh the joy

Disappointments drowning the spirit

Burdens weighing heavy upon small shoulders

As the child's eyes deepen in grief

Life is never fair or just

A lesson well learned for the girl child

Love a word easily thrown

Love a word never really known

In one twinkling moment of time

With a cruel blow from a loved hand

Illusions fall away

And life is again exposed in a cold cruel light