1986

To Rebecca

How deeply close two women should be

That you should share motherhood with me
My touch, your touch
Their hands, our hands
They will learn our ways,
Build castles of our sands
All formed of love
A chain of trust -
They knowing you
You knowing us
The jewels of your soul will be handed down
As my talents and blood in them will be found
Our days enriched
Our lives adorned
And crowned by the
Roses whose thorns
Will keep at bay the sadness on their way;
Little soldiers loading up their packs
As back and forth, back and forth they go,
I worry about them so
And they, within the vertigo of their lives
Will dance between our hearts
Forming ribbons of happiness
Which encircle us like a wedding dance
Round and round wrapping us together
Like a gift to be given and given
Streamers of memories - so many, so many,
They will come to know the vertigo
And it will become them
young planets in orbit
They’ll find their way home within.