Come home from
work
into this
perfect silence.
Shhhhh...see!
My child
curled up
against her
Mum’s tum.
Both of them
naked in the sun.
Both
curled into one
as when pregnant
now made into two.
I see my wife’s smile
transposed note for note
into my child’s
smile
as if strings had given way
to a gleeful glockenspiel.
I gaze
at my wife’s lovely face
decanted into our
little girl
like I was
looking at my wife
when she was a little girl
or if I could view
my little girl
as the woman she would
become
.
Even Time
seems amazed at them.
I kiss softly
(ever so softly) .
the top of
their curls
laugh
as two pairs of eyes
open...gaze
amazed into mine.
“Darling! ” whispers the one.
“Daddy! ” shouts the other.
Dónall Dempsey
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/two-eyes-of-blue-for-onelia/
