Your Eyes

Sweet little child, what do you see
with those brown-green eyes
looking up at me?
When I don't hear your cries
what crosses your mind?
When I walk too fast and leave
you behind?
When I can't ease your pain
do you know I hurt too?
Though I feel so deeply my failures
do you feel my love for you?
Sweet little child what price
do you pay
When I'm broken and seem to
have lost my way?
I see a worn-out mother
frazzled, half-dead --
But you look deeper and see
divinity instead.
In your eyes I find I can
almost see
The one you adore,
the mother you believe me to be.
When you reach out tiny hands
around my neck holding tight
Suddenly we're
both bathed in God's loving light.