On Gods and Children

If I must be deliberate in your casting
and in your naming
so must you be in marking this world 
with what I have given you
In the end
I made you to make myself
so that I could live forever
and so that I may pass
knowing that
at some point
on some day
in some time
I mattered
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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