Your eyelashes moved the
air between us.
The lids which carried them
would swing open and shut…
open and shut.
And there, soft blue would
circle the light within you.
That little light of yours
that did shine…
did shine on us.
When we were with you
lower loves were called up
to the higher one.
Agape’ would surface…
it would surface in us.
Your family would see
your smiles spread across.
Sometimes you would
lend them to the rest of us…
to rest on us.
A language from above
you would speak.
A coo of your own tongue
would rise with our questions…
rise above our questions.
Without a first step,
without a framed embrace,
without a formed word,
you spoke to our lives…
spoke into our lives.
And we slowed down
down to our being
where the still small voice is
that voice you heard
that voice we hear.
And when sleep came,
it came so sweetly and
air slipped in and out and
God held our breath…
God held our breath.
For the Webb family
in honor of Aiden Josiah Webb
April 1st 2011
© Gerald Allen Barrett and parentheticallyspeakingin3d, 2012.
Gerald the Writer 
amen
Jerry,
My eyes, my ears, my heart, my whole self was brought back to that little room where we all sat around that precious child. The memories are so sweet and the words reminded me again of the closeness of those people who were touched by that little guy. His short life touched even more than those there. Wherever he went, people were quickly brought in to the circle of the touch of God’s love. Thank you for helping us all to remember those moments!
…Phyl
Thank you Phyllis, I remember our time together hanging close to Aiden and his family.
god held our breath…really jerry…this gave me goose bumps… i just love the gentleness you touch that with..
Maybe I will link with d’verse. I am off work tday.
Well done — as always!
(The logical part of me — which is most of me — appreciates the consistent 5 line format and how the last two lines of each stanza played off each other.)
Thanks for stopping by Peter.
I am so taken by this: “Your eyelashes moved the air between us” … and the ending.
Thanks for stopping by Shawna
and god held our breath..that is an awesome close to this…we slowed our being…that too and that is a discipline for sure…