Child of My Heart

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Carol Spear Stewart is mother to two wonderful daughters. Her work has appeared in Muscadine Lines, Collage, and Night Writers. She is a former teacher and magazine editor, and is currently working on her first novel.

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In my dreams
(my mother-self dreams)
I dreamed you

dreamed you
  filling up
    my empty arms
dreamed us
   smiling
      loving
mother and child.

In my longing
(my mother-self longing)
I cried inside
to see young children
clutching their mothers' hands
(my own were
   so utterly
      empty then)
and friends
all having babies
(such an easy thing to do) --

while I
waited and
waited (forever,
      it seemed)
child of my heart
for you.

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