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NIGHT CRY
Another night cry
Carried on capricious
wings of wind---
The baby needs me again.
A touch on the forehead
And eyelids flutter and drift,
While the storm slams angry fists
Against windows blind and thick.
The cry pulls me out of sleep
Time on time on time
Through tumultuous thunder
And relentless ragged rain.
My hand strokes away fever
And my power shuts out pain---
But when will night see day?
Moons have waxed and waned
When I hear the cry again.
But now the crumbled walls
Slow my wandering way
To the room of child and mother.
My tremulous hands betray
The truth of light of day---
My child has slipped away,
And the storms invade within.