For My Daughter

[bobvincent]

FOR MY DAUGHTER

Fruit of my flesh, I saw and claimed you first
as I hovered numb by your mother’s head.
Pethidine-pacified, drug-dilated,
your sapphire eyes rolled, then pierced into mine.

I love you with unconditional love,
peak of my creation. You cannot know
how I burn when your chosen path is rough.
Beloved only child and heir to all,
you do not know how your star light jewelled
my dark night or how you kept me breathing
in my blackest moments. Pass on our spark;
let not my mother’s quivering light die.
May I dandle another lovely babe
before my eyes close and see yours no more.