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by Susan Erling
For those few weeks -
I had you to myself
And that seems too short a time
to be changed so profoundly
In those few weeks -
I came to know you....
and to love you.
You came to trust me with your life.
Oh, what a life I had planned for you!
Just those few weeks -
When I lost you,
lost a lifetime of hopes,
plans, dreams, and aspirations...
A slice of my future simply vanished overnight.
Just those few weeks -
It wasn't enough time to convince others
how special and important you were.
How odd, a truly unique person has recently died
and no one is mourning the passing
Just those few weeks -
And no "normal" person would cry all night
over a tiny unfinished baby,
or get depressed and withdraw day after endless day
No one would, so why would I?
You were just those few weeks my little one;
you darted in and out of my life too quickly.
But it seems that's all the time you needed
to make my life so much richer
and give me a small glimpse of eternity
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