To My Baby

Someone in the Ghost Orchid Women community told me about this poem and I LOVE it so much that I thought I'd share it here...

To My Baby 
by Bob Neudorf

Is it proper to cry

For a baby too small

For a coffin?

Yes, I think it is.

Does Jesus have

My too-small baby

In His tender arms?

Yes, I think He does.

There is so much I do not know

About you—my child—He, she? quiet or restless?

Will I recognize

Someone I knew so little about,

Yet loved so much?

Yes, I think I will.

Ah, sweet, small child,

Can I say

That loving you is like loving God?

Loving—yet not seeing,

Holding—yet not touching,

Caressing—yet separated by the chasm of time.

No tombstone marks your sojourn,

And only God recorded your name.

The banquet was not canceled,

Just moved. Just moved.

Yet a tear remains

Where a baby should have been.

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