Innocent Ones
All you little lives
all the babies I have seen
Many of you weren't planned
but most answered someone's dream...
My hands bathed your bodies first
and put on your first piece of clothing -
in two or three days, you're gone from here
where you go, what happens next,
are things I'm left not knowing.
I saw you in your nativity
bare and wailing, so dismayed by your birth!
Watched the impression of your family, there;
Often pleased (to see them happy) - sometimes hurt...
Did you know, you each have touched my heart
in ways, and places, I don't fully understand.
All you little humans, souls of innocence - Angels -
may your lives know love offered with only gentle hands...
(c)K.E.Cline, 1987 [revised 1995]