I can hardly see you for all the tubes and monitors they’ve attached you to my little one. <br />You look so frail and poorly. <br />Oh how I wish I could hold you – but I can’t. <br />Just hang in there, be strong for Daddy. <br />He loves you very much. <br />And so do I. <br />Please don’t leave. <br />Stay, just one more day. <br /> <br />I want you to see the sky. <br />The many colours it changes through. <br />The wonderful fun you could have with clouds and rain and sunshine and snow and… <br />I want you to smell cut grass in the park and roll in the autumn leaves. <br />I want you to hear Mozart and Beethoven and the Sex pistols and Radiohead and <br />whatever music your generation will bring you. <br />I want you to dance, to sing, to feel all the emotions with a whole an honest heart. <br />Please, stay one more day. <br /> <br />The doctors and nurses have come in now. <br />They’re shouting and moving so fast. <br />I can’t quite see what’s going on. <br />I just want you to stay – one more day, one more hour, one more minute. <br />Life has so much to offer you my dear, dear child. <br />Daddy loves you and so do I. <br /> <br />They’ve taken away the tubes and the machines now. <br />They’ve placed you in Daddy’s arms. <br />You couldn’t stay any longer. <br /> <br />Now you’re here with me and you never did see the sky. <br />Remember Daddy loves you. <br />And so do I.<br /><br />Alice Anne Gordon<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/please-stay-3/
