Not enough time between
us to recall when you
were born,
to recall the screaming,
the helplessness.
I wish I remembered
when you were
smaller than I,
big blue eyes in a
scrunched red face,
wish I remembered
what it was for you to be
vulnerable, but instead
I stand beside you,
looking up, thinking
not enough time between us
to see you now as anything
but equal.
us to recall when you
were born,
to recall the screaming,
the helplessness.
I wish I remembered
when you were
smaller than I,
big blue eyes in a
scrunched red face,
wish I remembered
what it was for you to be
vulnerable, but instead
I stand beside you,
looking up, thinking
not enough time between us
to see you now as anything
but equal.
