Babyfather…
I listen to this song every single
day…maybe I’m broody….
“We were waiting for the bus
No one much around but us
Then I see this young boy stop to look at
me
I’m stunned, in a daze
He had the whole street set ablaze
Its only love they say
Makes you feel this way
She liked his eyes, she wanted more
The baby’s gonna have your smile for sure
He saw a lovely girl
Smelling sweet and soapy like fresh air
She saw him looking, acted like she didn’t
care
That’s how we knew
And so love grew
A flower that is you….
Even to the angels it may sound like a lie
For you, child,
He has the troops and extra backup standing
by
For you, child,
He is the best he can be
Don’t you know?
Your daddy’s love comes with a lifetime
guarantee…” (Sade – Babyfather)
It’s such a sweet, thoughtful song…..and it
made me think of how nice it would be to have a baby grow inside me and the
sweet little things I would say to him….
I used to want an Indian baby…don’t
laugh…they have beautiful hair…maybe one day I will adopt…maybe…but then you
kinda think “What about a baby that looks like me?”….
So this is what I would say to my little
unborn baby if he were here with me now… :)
Dear
You,
Hope
you’re really warm in there…mummy loves you…today I saw a flower…bloom and
grow…and I thought about how beautiful life is…the little baby you will be,
growing into a little child with mud on your hands and grass in your
hair…growing into a sturdy boy playing soccer and coming first in class…one
day you will grin at me with that gap in between your teeth and introduce me to
your girlfriend…and when I’m old and grey you will drive me to church and sit
next to me…little daydreams….
How
a seed can grow from something I can’t even see into a man that women will
admire and men will respect…that is beautiful to me….
I
wonder if you will have my eyes or my huge ears…will you have my quick to burn
temper or your father’s slowly brewing one? Will you like music or making
pictures? Will you be tall like your grandfather or short like me? Will you
cook or play video games? Or maybe, will you do both…or none of the above? I
wonder…little silly daydreams…
I
hope you will know that you are loved. I hope you will know that I live and
breathe for you and the day I will see your little face and hold you and name
you and hear you cry. I hope you will know that you are protected and that you
can come to me with anything. I hope you will love God and your family, that
you will be a man of honour who tells the truth, works hard at his craft and is
responsible for the things that belong to him. I hope that you will see the
beauty in the little things and that one day you will say these things to your
own children and remember me saying them to you….
Love,
Mummy…
I really hope that one day I’ll get to say
all that…don’t mind me…I have a song for everything….
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