Little Girl Lost

I

As my fingers trace your silhouette
Your lips will feel my kiss
The shoulders that have held me up
I will never have to miss

The strength of you in support
The little girl has grown
Opened up to live and life
Through a love she had never known

As your love grows in me
The taste of you and the feel
Each layer you now remove
Just gives our love a new reveal

From little girl spoiled and lost
To wife and mother too
You know you have my heart my love
It forever belongs to you.

II
Working through the small hours
Bringing home the bread
Two small sons to feed
A place to rest your head

All those years a grafting
Boys then turn to men
Believing that was it
This was starting again

Words jumbled in your head
Pages of poems you wrote
Making sense of your life
Working and living by rote

A working life then ended
Grandfather, a new role
Doting on the new births
Even so life took its toll

III
A little girl was waiting
Waiting for many years
Not knowing that she was waiting
For you to catch her tears

Continents apart
Worlds so far removed
A child innocent and empty
And alone, that was proved.

Comfort takes its time
Your shoulders you gave to me
Your love did the healing
And that is in the book you see

A love so strong so vibrant
A love that keeps us apart
No continents do divide us
Just the hurting of others hearts.

© GG 14/07/2013

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Roger Hadden

Date: 8/6/2013 2:50:00 PM

Extremely beautiful and heart felt. A grand poem. Thank you for the nice review of my poem. Roger Dale Hadden.

Jack Horne

Date: 7/27/2013 2:59:00 PM

love this intriguing and tender write, my friend. Hope you are feeling fighting fit again xx

Mustapha Mohammed

Date: 7/27/2013 4:10:00 AM

This was lovely Mandy.The rhyme and flow is excellent in this one.Loved it!

Debbie Duncan

Date: 7/26/2013 10:37:00 PM

nicely put together ;}

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 7/26/2013 12:08:00 AM

Mandy, who is Ellen? Did she write this? I feel like this is about someone who finally found the connection she had so long been seeking. would like to know the history of this one.

Shadow Hamilton

Date: 7/25/2013 11:56:00 AM

lovely flow to this very nice poem Shadow x smiles

Sean L Sanders

Date: 7/25/2013 4:00:00 AM

Passionate and thought provoking poem excellent poem poet.

Poet. Undertaker

Date: 7/24/2013 9:24:00 AM

great mandy.passion all through. great.

Harry Horsman

Date: 7/23/2013 2:55:00 PM

This is lovely Mandy, a poem that weaves through time, and allows the heartstrings to bathe in sentiment, i just love this , truly my type of poetry, and you do it so well!!!!!!!!!