Before You Were Born

Before you were born

we thought we were writing

our own days in a book.

But when you arrived
we tiptoed through faraway shadows
and your late afternoon nap

so that your waking cries

could keep us up all

the starry-dark night.

And we didn't even mind.

For we wanted those minutes and hours to be written firmly upon

our memory.

FOREVER.

-excerpt taken from "Before You were Born."

Written by: Nancy White Carlstrom

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