Nadiya's Song

(To the tune of Frere Jacques)

I am baby.
You are daddy.

Lay me down to rest.
Lay me on your chest.

I'm gonna get some sleep now.
I'm gonna get some sleep now.

Catching Z's.
Catching Z''s

I am baby.
You are daddy.

Lay me down to rest.
Lay me on your chest.

I'm gonna get some sleep now.
I'm gonna get some sleep now.

Catching Z's.
Catching Z''s

I don't really know any lullabies but I can recall the tunes so this is what I've been singing to my little girl at night.

Simply Dad

A broken body rises from bed.
The mind never questioning why.

Weary arms fold together.
With the look of loving eyes.

A broken voice sings at night.
A child softens her cries.

Fallen to sleep on my chest.
To my hearts lullaby.

Tug of Dissent

The mouth froths teeth clinched at the bit.
Pounding rumbling the distance drawing near.
Clanking rattling thunderous sounds drowned
out by the roar of a single beating heart.

The wave of man crashes together in death
and opposing ideals.  Blood spills from the
thoughts of conquest and nobility.   Each right
to self and wrong about another.

To live.  To let live.  To embrace mind sets
so strongly others condemned to die.  This is the
beginning of tyranny where freedom strikes
back to survive.  This is war.

Her Birth

Tear drops pause on the corner of my eyes.
Worried about the world surrounding her.
Grains of love pulled from endless beaches
newly discover ocean shores.

Realization she is the land stretching under
the oceans that support my love.  A cleansing
breath taken as I emerge from a world without her
coming to existence.

Waves within me wash every feeling, moment and
reason for being ashore.  Brought into focus under the
sun of  a new world.  The birth the life the mother the soul
all in front of me.

My world focused to a single thought, family.

Baby Girl

A new arrival.
Always in my life.
Only minutes here.
Emptiness of past
Fullness of future
Culminating you
A breath a cry
You are alive
I given meaning