Thursday 5 April 2012

A Child Will Come


A child will come    to live among you,
to claim you as guardians    in tenderness,
whose name will be    a byword to you:
a name for your hope,    your joy, your faith,
                                                for your caress.

Though flames may dwindle    as, during night-hours,
we contemplate    our final duress,
the more your child    will be welcome to you:
the name that arrived    and, through your lives,
                                                who never left.

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