DEAR CHILD WITHIN

Your salted droplets keep falling like rain,
while I become weary from feeling your pain.

I'm sorry this evil was laid upon you,
it's over, I'm grown, what more can I do?

You hide, yet you scream,"why must it be me?"
I've tasted, I've felt, I've seen what you see.

The pain! it's intense, yet it seems to increase.
Will knowing I love you help make it all cease?

I must be what he couldn't be.
A parent to guide you, your innocence, set free.

Hush! Don't cry. I know you are sad.
together we'll make it, life is not all that bad.

I will guard and protect, I'm the adult here outside.
You, the frightened child within, please! don't hide.

Author: Deneane Magliano (Thomsen) Apr.27,1996
Published by: Quill books
Book Title: Treasure the Moment December 1996