To Meet My Child Given Away (Pantoum)

                    By Munda

 

                    To meet my child given away      

                    The daughter I have never seen

                    To hold you once I daily pray

                    No changing now what might have been

 

                    The daughter I have never seen

                    How I would love to hear your voice

                    No changing now what might have been

                    To give you up was not my choice

 

                    How I would love to hear your voice

                    Embrace you with a mother’s heart

                    To give you up was not my choice

                    My deepest soul, you are a part

 

                    Embracing you with mother’s heart

                    To let you go has left me scarred

                    My deepest soul, you are a part

                    I hope that you’ve been loved thus far

 

                    To let you go has left me scarred

                    There truly was no other way

                    To learn that you’ve been loved thus far

                    I yearn to live to see that day

 

                    There truly was no other way

                    To hold you once I daily pray

                    I yearn to live to see the day

                    To meet my child given away

 

                    © Copyright Munda 2001

 

 

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