Sum of a Life

Precious little being, born out of step

Innocent and blank

Please, God, let only good be written.

Child born to the loved and unloved,

Loving and unloving,

Innocent and ready.

The Old One watches and remembers,

Remembering another baby long ago,

Unloved, unwanted

Baby tossed aside

Needy mother

Disconnected and disinterested father

The Girl lost and lonely

Then struggling and needy young woman

Appearing to others disconnected and disinterested

   Very needy, but not knowing how

Marrying for all the wrong reasons

-                     Comes a baby

Girl very interested, very “mother”

insisting on baby’s needs, not her own

Another child, now two, mother and father giving all they have to both

Guiding, loving, knowing how – sometimes not knowing

Time and time, babies grow up

Wonderful mothers

One whose child has a child.

Baby held, loved, nurtured

Now the Old One

 – no longer the lost and lonely one

 – now not tossed aside,

loves and steps aside.