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Headstall's Reflections - 84. Chapter 84 The Nature of Nurture
The Nature of Nurture
From the darkness
Light escapes
And I trace your jawline
In Mother Moon’s sudden shine
Before I dab the sweat
Beading your fevered brow
It cools with each passing hour
As you breathe in peaceful sleep
The worst is over, my love
And the tenderness I feel
Is overwhelming
To my damaged soul
Sighing quietly, I know
I must live in this moment
For our grains of sand drain
Towards a sun soon to end this respite
And provoke those words
Which will cleave us
But for now
There is just you and me
On sick-dampened sheets
Joined in the ways
Of those who have had good fortune
And share a love of the ages
There is no morn as yet
And there are no decrees
To rend gashes in your heart and mine
So I will stay thankful for this long night
And your child-like need of me
It will be another memory cherished
—and deposited in a bank brimming with them
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