Angie

From the moment

you were placed

in my trembling arms,

uncertainty fleeted

over dusk-dark rooftops

Through a window pane

I discovered –

how autumn day

beneath veil of rain mist

darkness calls

———

On the pavement,

under the first street lights

in gale of blustering wind,

murmur suddenly

died away

Shielded in my arms

I held a delicate bud

of unblemished scent

Untouched by human envy

or mortal sin

———

I felt contentment,

calm – after a long storm

Amazing flame

that heals the wounds

In an instant

anxiety drifted across

pristine white walls,

as you brought a joy –

to all that waited

———

Here,

in foreign room of life

I searched the eyes of

a teenage girl

and viewed elation

on the face

whose girlhood

just ended

I thought how insatiable

hunger –

after yellow gold, opals

in black hollows –

Discovering darkness

———

Yet, in a body of

a young mother

under whose breasts

you waited,

in you innocent baby

I found all the wealth

amidst earthly scream

of awakening

Eternal beam of life

(C)Dinka Bednjacic

Written 28. 03. 1992

( when Angie was born )