Wednesday, 3 March 2021

For Rachel

Beloved child to you I'll tell 

The few things that I know right well 

That on bleak mornings still the sun will rise 

That beauty can be found through others' eyes 


I'll tell to you my dearest truth of all 

That if you wish to stand alone 

By that wish you have begun to fall 


For life is one long sweet embrace 

In which trees poets stars and stones 

All find a place 


And last of all I wish you free 

To think in different ways from me


I think you can tell I wrote this for my first child. 


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