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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OTHER WOMEN'S CHILDREN, by NAOMI REYNOLDS
First Line: Other women's children lean
Last Line: Mean everything to me.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
First Line: Other women's children lean
Last Line: Mean everything to me.
Subject(s): Children; Childhood
Other women's children lean
Their heads against my cheek,
Whisper secrets in my ear,
Or curiously seek
Mirror pictures in my eyes,
And tangle up my hair,
Playing I'm a tiger, or
A fearsome grizzly bear.
Other women's children creep
Up close to me at night,
Lisping, "Now I lay me," and
"Please leave a little light!"
In the early hours of dawn
I hear their waking cries,
Breaking in upon my dreams
Of you in Paradise --
You and that all perfect thing,
Our child that was to be.
Other women's children must
Mean everything to me.
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