Lament

Cradled deep in my mother`s womb My soul and hers entwined With each heart beating soft and low Two lives in one combined I heard the murmur of her voice And felt her gently sway As tenderly she carried me Within her through each day She bore me as a mother will In joyfulness and pain And held me close against her breast My life there to sustain And though my newborn eyes were dim My senses not unfurled I gazed upon her loveliness My life, my heart, my world (I`ve ne`er beheld a smile so sweet Nor yet a face so fair A vision hewn from misted pearl With eyes beyond compare) I felt her love envelop me Protective as I grew Oh she was everything to me Was all I ever knew And through my childhood`s magic years Of innocence and light No clouds were there to hide the sun No everlasting night But then she chose to end her life (The misted pearl waxed grey) And the liquefaction of her soul Left mine to fade away (If only I could see her now And touch her once again Then I would surely be reborn Slip back from whence I came)