In Your Experience
(for Heidi)
Knowing that you’ve delivered life,
After nine months’ creative wait,
Should be conceived love incarnate
In your experience.
Feeling your baby nuzzle close
Within your arms towards your breast
Should be, amongst life’s joys, the best
In your experience.
Sensing that from yourself there flow
Health-giving streams of nourishment
Should be a source of deep content
In your experience.
Sharing those incidents that teach
Life’s lessons to a growing mind
Should be an education twined
In your experience.
Seeing your cherished child achieve
Maturity’s wise adulthood
Should be the goal of parenthood
In your experience.
