Giving Life

I lifted you from your mother's womb
And lost you in that very room.
Now my body feels like an empty tomb,
And I wish I were still that happy groom.
Now my life sweeps away like dust in a broom,
But I've spun good thread to fill your loom.
Sweet baby, I give you my life.

Richard C. Hayner
May 7, 1981 ©

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