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\n

You part of me<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every day your history
\nEvery tomorrow your destiny
\nEvery growth your mystery
\nEvery mother wants a baby
\nLike you<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every laugh your personality
\nEvery look your clarity
\nEvery word your stability
\nEvery mother wants a baby
\nLike you<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every hiccup a comedy
\nEvery fall a catastrophe
\nEvery worry my worry
\nEvery step you\u2019re beside me
\nEvery sight you\u2019re pure beauty
\nEvery mother wants a baby
\nLike you<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every tear wiped carefully
\nEvery word spoke lovingly
\nEvery meal fed silently
\nevery cloth washed caringly
\nEvery song sung sweetly<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every day I whisper quietly
\nEvery mother wants a baby
\nLike you<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the author
\nLemn Sissay MBE is a care leaver and associate artist at Southbank Centre, patron of The Letterbox Club and The Reader Organisation, ambassador for The Children\u2019s Reading Fund, trustee of Forward Arts Foundation and inaugural trustee of World Book Night and an honorary doctor of Letters. He has been a writer from birth and foremost he is a poet.
\nFind out more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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