[Kitten.With.A.Twist]

Because you are Mine

Because you are mine
I want you to be happy
Your safety doesn't often occur to me
because you are always "safe"

You are Mine the way my
children are Mine
Your joy is my joy
and your pain is my pain

My only my urge when you are hurting
is to draw you close and hold you so tight
that I absorb every tear like a sponge
and you don't hurt anymore.

As with the babies, I know I cannot
really ease your pain.
There is nothing that I can 'do' to
make it "all better" anymore.

Kisses only hold so much magik.

I cannot make different choices for you
nor can I always offer sound counsel to you
I cannot stop the world from turning
or make Life stop doing what Life does, to you...to me.

But I can hold you when you ask me to,
and sometimes when you don't
You are weightless in my embrace
and you do not drag me down

I am not tethered by your presence in my heart
I draw you closer into me
because you are part of me
Not a burden I must bear

Fog does not weight the water it rests upon
It is just a part of the water..separate
separated...
for a little while

I ache for you when you ache
and I will rejoice with you when you rejoice again
And you will.
Because you are Mine.