fiona fair

tenderness
and the sweetest of breaths
bright eyes sparkle
with awareness

so full of choices
so full of life
your round mouth gaping
you are radiance

its almost painful
when I hold you in a dark night
to feel the warmth and the joy
and the sadness
of a chosen life

you are a miracle to me

I dance and I marvel and I wonder
in your crystal eyes
and I long to discover what's to hope for
in your age-old mind

only time and hurt can hold
it all at bay
but my brokenness and love will
carry on this way
until I learn

the smart men talk of
original sin
to suggest we are beautiful only
now and then
but they are gone
and it's you and I who have to try again
and again

how does a child so lovely
and wise
yield to failure
after only a few tries
to go spinning into rage
only then to settle down
in goodness and faith

you are a miracle to me

you know full well how to
cross the line
you redefine
what is yours and what is mine
until its time
to cry
and to let it all
slip away

a voice that carries like a
beckoned muse
but becomes in a second a short
lighted fuse

forcing our hand and our promise
to love
we will, we do, we
already have

and we laugh
because you are ours
because we are yours
and you teach us more than we'll know