A Strawberry Onesie

A strawberry onesie

With feet to match

A pattern all over your body

Like it’s the whole patch

Your big blue eyes

How much farther you can see

How fast you are growing

I wonder what you’ll be

A strawberry onesie

Turns into light up shoes

That turns into dresses

Then an alter and some pews

I feel the heavy weight

Of you growing so quickly

That I can’t look away

From those eyes just so simply

That baby I prayed for

The daughter I yearned for

I take for granted

When the days feel like a chore

You cry in the day

A burden to make you stop

You wake in the night

My sleep I feel flop

But in those moments

I forget to cherish

Raising you is a grace

You growing, I can’t bear it

How tired I am

Exhaustion clouds my eyes

I hold you tight anyways

Because forever truly lies

A strawberry onesie

Now too small to fit

A mother holds her baby

Begging time not to slip