Tag: child
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Lullaby of Mother and New Born Child Abandoned in the Night
The Hudson sleepsand the clouds sweep over the moon. I promise little dearwith this small tear I will always love you.Sleep, sleep, sleeppeace, peace, peacethe promise I grant you. This song is the factthat your star remains intactin my heart, steady and true.The river’s lull,the moons’s full glowwill always pull us through.The path will be…
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Our Song of Sadness
Live long enough and your Father will serve you grief with oranges on a silver platter—Shed enough tears and your Motherwill appear, remorse in one hand,a pomegranate in the other—Bury a spouse, and salt will be your servant, once the beloved’s water leaves, and you’ve swallowed the last bitter herbs.Lose a child, and light will…
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Nourishment
The buried placenta knows not the suffering of the womb,only that it once nourished.