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Love The Child Love the child. The little one looks only for your love in her simplicity. Shut her out. She feels your heart's door close leaving her doorstepped, alone, exposed to fear. Love the child. She dreams of being held not tossed aside, impatiently dismissed. Birds and butterflies wing her far away from sadness when the child remains unloved. Coldness takes away the sunshine in her eyes. stills the lively dance in tapping toes. Love the child while you can. Those young-spun years will never come again Without your love the child will grow a shadow, unsubstantial, living in grey sky. Love the child so she can learn to trust. Without this she dies in shuttered isolation. Outstretched arms, clear eyes, smile keeping face alight with welcome expectation. Love the child. Wipe the welcome off instilling fear and pain and all you have is One unloved adult Lost to the child, housed in isolation self-barred from Life. ******************** Goessoftly Retired Therapist www.goessoftlyishere.com (permission for reprints is required)    | LOVE THE CHILD | YOU DO NOT KNOW ME | Contemplating Suicide | ON THE COUCH | Can you sit and do NOTHING ? | LOSS ( a friend) | The Emperor and Silence is a Vote | Two Poems | I MISS You,Friend | | THE HEALING PROCESS | DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER | POETRY | |
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