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::: Your Perfect Eye :::

In your perfect infant eye
I vowed no pain should meet
I watched you climb and let you fall
But caught you just in time

And when they said you did not fit
I shoved and pushed and squeezed
Then spilled the first of many stains
Upon your heart’s new frown

By love I thought this was designed
To set you on your way
A needed smoosh to smooth the path
So rife with more the same

And at this point you asked for none
But veiled within your frame
A steely grace, a banded flame
To keep your spirit sound

Sensing this, I turned to them
With lash and spite and rage
Protecting you this time I tried
To wash away the shame

Knowing now the vow I made
Was only but a dash
Against a tide I’d known too well
Compassion’s late embrace

So when you take your hand in hand
To wring its broken form
Forgive by love that He did make
Not stolen from that dream

And place it high for all to see
That memory can remain
Of days by names that only gave
In times when truth revealed

That all the while I thought you this
It was me I tried to hide
And always will your infant I
Be perfect in its place

Written by: ~ Trisha Mathews