By That Child

The bodily pain

Cannot surpass the joy

Of the first moment

I held my baby boy

 He has shown me

The meaning to everything

He is the voice

That makes my soul sing

And in the days gone by

I have wondered time and again

Would I take those steps

To hold another child within

Could I handle the bodily pain

In order to receive yet another

For my son who I hold so dear

To have a sister or brother

I would I am sure

Take on that tough trial

In order to fill my life

With yet another child

I would take the morning sickness

Discomfort keeping me in bed

I would take the back aches

And even the aguish in my head

All for another soul

To be joined forever with mine

The joy of holding another baby

Is a passion I must find

A mothers strength is not perfection

But her soul is forever a slave

To the risk of when I must again carry

I know in that time I will be brave

And when that child comes to me

I pray with all of my might

That in the eyes of the Lord

That I do by that child what is right