Your soul and mine ©2006 All Rights Reserved
Young one, I see your soul and feel your yearning.
In a mirror of yesterday, my dreams and desires afresh
full of conflict, joy and pain.
Cruel hurts many years past now sting us both.
Your eyes tell the story of your life and mine
reflecting deepest desires, fears and unhealed pain.
In your tears I face emotions from long ago
that loosen and tighten their grip on my heart, now yours.
I witness your fear of letting go and giving in.
I recognize your passion to fight.
Fight unspeakable fears, injustices, disbelief, hopelessness.
Fight them sweet one because they are arrogant and misplaced.
Faith, Hope and Love that sustain me will carry you through the years
and looking into your daughter’s eyes while seeing your own sorrow
and feeling hers, you will discover that same Faith, Hope and Love
will remain with her and nourish her spirit.
