You part of me
Every day your history
Every tomorrow your destiny
Every growth your mystery
Every mother wants a baby
Like you
Every laugh your personality
Every look your clarity
Every word your stability
Every mother wants a baby
Like you
Every hiccup a comedy
Every fall a catastrophe
Every worry my worry
Every step you’re beside me
Every sight you’re pure beauty
Every mother wants a baby
Like you
Every tear wiped carefully
Every word spoke lovingly
Every meal fed silently
every cloth washed caringly
Every song sung sweetly
Every day I whisper quietly
Every mother wants a baby
Like you
About the author
Lemn 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’s 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.
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