Our Eyes

I would like to go and visit myself, when I was a child.
And hold her in my arms and cry, 
while her heart was still free and wild.
I'd like to say I'm sorry...
For how I failed her.
I wouldn't wish to look in her eyes.
I don't want to see the child in me,
That in time slowly dies.

Maybe that's why I can't look in my own children's eyes.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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June 12, 2016 at 12:06 AM
Amy, well penned. Enjoyed reading your thoughts and words today. *SKAT*
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