For My Son--Free Verse Poem

This is a free verse poem for National Poetry Month. Sorry, I don't write on Sunday. So my limerick is up for the last day of the month since I'll be in Ireland...in Limerick...:o) Instead, this is free verse:

For My Son

I don't know if you realize

How you've pinned me to the world

With your potent hugs,

The care in your eyes,

And the way my words sound

In your ears.

You bump me back into 

My groove,

The one I've been carving

Since I was younger 

Than you.

You tell me

With that hundred and fifty watt smile

Of yours,

In a way that sings in my heart

And makes my life more like chocolate

And less like sand burrs.

If only you knew how I 

Watch you sleep

And how close to the surface

Are the tears which 

Tie you to me 

Forever

Hope lives in you,

Takes root and blooms,

The flowers fragrant 

And everliving.

You are beautiful 

In white.

© 2016 by H. Linn Murphy