and when you close your eyes I dream.
About yesterdays, tomorrows,
Acres of land
And your dad and I, still making each other laugh.
I will always be holding you close to me.
Close like mama read me a story,
Close like I will always kiss your hurts away
Close like this:
Your little tired body is melting against my mama one
and i thaw brilliantly
You and me we
are mine
Forever
Memories I curl round my fingers and take in each morning and evening with water, twice a day,
Dreams bloom into irises and
convert
My hesitations Into fields of flowers
tall enough to cut and take to all the neighbors, there are enough for the whole street and baskets besides
And I am smitten by motherhood.
Dreams that fill me with pictures,
so
many pictures books full and years full and we are laughing and teasing and loving in
these pictures.
I want them all.
And we’ll grow up with the grape vines, on our acres
the peach trees will grow old
And you’ll have siblings to spare and
I see
Happy.
(The kind that spills so easily over the backyard fence you can’t help but put hands in pockets and smile-sigh)
One-dimple smile, yours
You’re laughing at their dog playing fetch while I’m
Wild on my insides,
A true dreamer
Fantasizing on family happiness and how
Vitamins
You are mine
