for my neice who lost her unborn child 1995

 

 

You slept in darkness

waiting to be born

Surrounded by love

aching arms could not hold.

Gone too soon

you never saw this world

Nor, the loving smile

upon your mother's face.

Sleep, little one

in God's gentle hands

Awake to sweet lullabys,

Angelic song

Your name remembered

in whispered prayer

From trembling lips.

Live, Julia Donna

in His holiest light

Know love reaches through

the universe and on

into eternity.