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My child & I: A poem by Nisha Tandon

It is so easy for me to fall in love with you
Your innocence and effervescence is just so true
You give hope to failures I at times regret
But all my trials and tribulations you make me forget

Raising you has been such an inexpressible pleasure
In the depths of my heart, I silently treasure
Your every smile and those precious tears
Your moments of pride and all your fears

My unfulfilled dreams and my incomplete aspirations
Perhaps some of my life’s toughest decisions
My hopes and my trust I completely place in you
My childhood, once again I live through you

You give my dreams sturdy wings to fly
With so much ease through the limitless sky
With you beside me, I dare to soar
Through storms of life, I’m safely ashore

All your lasting memories of yesteryears
Are etched in my heart so vivid and clear
They shall give me company when you are gone
To realize your dreams in some land unknown

I shall preserve the promises that we have made
And create lasting memories that shall never fade
To fall in step when the time does come
Till then my child, to loneliness, I shall not succumb

When I lose my very will to walk
And there is no one when I need to talk
I know you shall be with me once again
When I just once call out your name