Dear Baby boy,
You calm soul.
Love becomes you,
Soft and warm.
Rush not on your way,
Paddle slow.
Relish each sweet breathe.
soak yourself in sunlight.
From your very first breathe,
You have smeared me with light.
Soon the woman who owns
the strings of your heart will be born.
And for her you must learn to,
Specialise in pleasure and joy.
Slow down, son.
Your partner is growing.
Like a mermaid she glows
waiting to shrug her fins for legs.
That will walk and dance
And entwine yours.
Until then, darling son.
Let me endow myself in your glow.
© Tasnim Jivaji
