I Know I'm No Replacement for a Child

May 5, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on May 10.

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A Mother’s Day poem to a wife who has had several miscarriages and no children:

I know I’m no replacement for a child.

That’s a loss I know I can’t make whole.

But I would be the sun that on you smiled,

A bit of brightness that your heart beguiled

And burned away the sadness in your soul.

I know I’m no replacement for a child,

Nor could you by my love be reconciled

To what both time and chance from your womb stole.

But I would be the sun that on you smiled,

Or gentle wind that made your winter mild,

Warm enough to meliorate the cold.

I know I’m no replacement for a child.

There is no way that one could fill the wild

Emptiness your phantom arms enfold.

But I would be the sun that on you smiled,

That lighted up the world that death defiled

And gleamed across the bell that in you tolled.
I know I’m no replacement for a child.
But I would be the sun that on you smiled.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/4: Mothers Are the Archetypes of Love

5/5: I Know I’m No Replacement for a Child