Because You Kept Your Head Close To My Heart Poem by vicki Bryant.

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Because you kept your head close to my heart

as you lay within my belly,

I did not push you from my womb

but had you taken from inside by a stranger's two hands.

You could not fight to avoid the world,

and, for that, came out unbruised.



But there is a wickedness that awaits you,

and though I may wipe away your tears

I will not always be able to exile their cause,

and, now, while you are little more than a babe in arms,

you laugh with ease as I lie awake at night

wishing I could forever have my belly cut to keep you safe.



And so the ancient, unexpurged fairy tales-

the tales of dragons that feed on men

and mermaids that die for love-

are the ones I'll read with you

not to frighten you or make you laugh less

but because they tell of the hurt

healed only by love.