The Love in Your Eyes

                                 for Ana Rina

Time was once a fluttering bird
inside your body, a flicker
that sends the love in your eyes
the unwritten commands that make
you a mother.
                             They sleep
apart from you now, in beds
warm with their own little
lights.
             When they dream
you can sense them in your own
guarded sleep, for your love
has built invisible threads of starlight
which the angels use to safely guide
every wish you hold for them

to their waiting souls.