My Wife and Child

 

 

            Is there a possibility,

A chance that we can take,

That makes the fantasy of peace reality?

           

            She looks truthfully in his eyes

While he suckles,

And the probability of the bond

Of understanding is powerful,

            As lovingly, she puts the child first.

 

 

            Majestic birds of metal

Spanned a million miles,

Now within a time of blame

She cannot grasp the sense,

Of pointed finger in bigotry

And living, under threat.

 

            My child suckles on the bottle,

Unawares that politics and prejudice 

May later thwart his life,

And my wife knows only love

While arguments enrage,

            I am begging for the peace

That every family should know!

 

            I am begging for a piece of time

For this love to blossom for he’s growing

And the Liberty with which freedom

Offered hope,

            Looks set to be replaced,

            Stopping love from spanning globes,

            Stopping human expression from flowing like a brook.

 

            Is there, a possibility,

A chance that we can take?

 

            Why with all the tragedy

Can people never seem to see,

The opportunities for all Earth’s peoples

To come together as the free?

 

            My child knows only Mum and Dad,

            Knows only when to cry for feeds,

            When he needs a diaper changed

            And when he needs to sleep.

            He’ll smile and coo on Mothers loving words,

            And every cuddles looking on in honesty

            As father puddles tears……….

 

………for I am Soldier,

I have defended populous

Who now seek this overthrow,

            They’ll point a blunted finger

            While stunted in their hearts

            No imaginations,

            No knowledge of their hurt,

           

My child knows only love,

My wife knows only love,

And I the soldier – Father

            Can no longer sleep so safe

            With wife and child

While the racists scream for blood.

 

                                    Our family, is love

                                    Our family, is love

                                    Our family, is love!

 

 

 

Michael J Waite 10^th June 2010.