Cradled deep in my mother`s womb <br />My soul and hers entwined <br />With each heart beating soft and low <br />Two lives in one combined <br /> <br />I heard the murmur of her voice <br />And felt her gently sway <br />As tenderly she carried me <br />Within her through each day <br /> <br />She bore me as a mother will <br />In joyfulness and pain <br />And held me close against her breast <br />My life there to sustain <br /> <br />And though my newborn eyes were dim <br />My senses yet still furled <br />I gazed upon her loveliness <br />My life, my heart, my world <br /> <br />(I`ve ne`er beheld a smile so sweet <br />Nor yet a face so fair <br />A vision hewn from misted pearl <br />With eyes beyond compare) <br /> <br />I felt her love envelop me <br />Protective as I grew <br />Oh she was everything to me <br />Was all I ever knew <br /> <br />And through my childhood`s magic years <br />Of innocence and light <br />No clouds were there to hide the sun <br />No everlasting night <br /> <br />But then she chose to end her life <br />(The misted pearl waxed grey) <br />And liquefaction of her soul <br />Left mine to fade away <br /> <br />(If only I could see her now <br />And touch her once again <br />Then I would surely be reborn <br />Slip back from whence I came)<br /><br />Valerie Dohren<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lament-46/
