For My Firstborn

I loved you beyond the night my heart stopped, ushering you forth I loved you with every fiber of my being leaving to be bread winner I loved you with such closeness you were fledgling beneath my arm pit I, who loved you in pain and heartache refused to give you up Because I loved the way you stood awakening life in me when I fell I loved you, though I was green with youth in my veins; the iris of mine eyes as small as my pupils *