My love for you grows in silence
Your tiny hands are still
The band around your wrist tells the world you are mine
Yet you seem farther than ever before
I tell myself you can hear me
So I talk to you through the night And sing your favorite lullabies
I feel the pain you cannot tell me And remember what you will not
When you are older I will sit at your bedside
And tell you of the time when you had to forget
And lay still in a metal bed, like sleeping beauty
I will not tell you about the lines, and tubes, and beeping sounds
Reminding me every minute that we were not in a fairytale
Instead, I will say you were brave
And never alone
I will tell myself I did not wait too long to call
And maybe I will believe it
Then I will watch you drift to sleep
With the peace of knowing
That in the morning You will wake
