My Little Soldier
When Children are very sick parents try and blame themselves and sometimes feel immense and overwhelming guilt and all though they know they are not to blame they continue to do so. Hope and acceptance of an illness is sometimes the only way to get through it sometimes with really positive outcomes!
My Little Soldier, I look at him
His perfect ivory skin
Peaceful in his drug-induced sleep
I know within, War rages, one he must win!
I look at him
His perfect potential life
The peaceful innocence of his internal strife.
I know within, I'd die to save him, my kin!
I look at him
My perfect child
Peaceful yet I'm forever riled,
I feel so deep within, he's paying for my sin!
I look at him
My perfect babe,
I search my heart and soul,
Dissecting my life, whole,
I feel no shame, Yet he's still in pain,
I look at him
My perfect son,
I promise him all, till this war is won
For I know within
Together
We'll conquer and win!
1st published in 2011
