If....Knowing Then What I Know Now

If today were
yesterday
would I have welcomed you so warmly
with open heart and cradling arm
and lots of scented baby oil?

If today were
yesterday
would I have heard God’s whispered warning
“A special son for you, My Child,
who’ll only last a little while”?

If today were
yesterday
would I have heard God’s whispered warning
woven throughout your boyhood bruises
entwined within your teen year trials?

I wonder...
but only for a moment.

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poem by Helen C Capan
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