A Poem for My Baby Girl

While You Still Fit

To hold you now

While you still fit

in this space between my one shoulder
and the other hip

Straddled here across my heart

In a darkened room

To feel your weight 

Your rounded limbs

small hands clutched onto my back 

And smell your hair 

And touch its silk 

--- And I know, by now

This time will go

I'll find the other joys

I know

But this, just now

To hold you so

Straddled here across my heart 

Feel your baby breath on me

For now you fit

For now you fill

Each corner of my weary soul 

How I will miss this time, I know.