When I held you

Image: Heartfelt

Oh my son

How you were the one

Who held my gaze

As I pondered your face.

Oh my son

How my thoughts still run

As I go back to that time

When you were mine.

Here I go

When there was no tomorrow

Even as I would hold

You ever so cold.

As I beheld your weight

And pondered your fate

Knowing you’d never grow old

Yet I wanted your story told.

With my senses I beheld

Even your body I smelled

Accepting your life was sold

As your witness was manifold.

Know matter what I did

I knew you’d stay a kid

And my voice was compelled

Even as “No!” I yelled.

And then the moment it comes

Remembering you numbs

Your presence upheld

That moment unparalleled.