September 25, 2009

sent

You came to me all involuntary
and hopeful, and helpless, and oh-so small,
and all you needed was my love.

It kills me that you never got the chance to live out in the open, under the spreading sky. Your life was close, and dark, and short as a midwinter day. But I kept you warm, at least. I could do that much for you.

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