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To a Young Mother
by Kathryn KayI cannot realize
that you have undergone
the oldest duplication known on earth.
You seem so very young to have been let in on
the secrets of the wonder we call birth,
and altho I reiterate the fact so bland
I cannot make myself believe nor understand
that it is true.You seem so young to be so old, to know so much–
you know thru you, another life’s begun.
You know against your breast your baby’s pulsing touch,
that you are two who but so recently were one.
I can’t believe it, tho I know that it is so,
and when you gaze down on that tiny head, I know
no more can you.(If the Shoe Fits © 1941, reprinted with permission)
About the poet:
LDS poetess Kathryn Kay (Kathryn Worsley Pratt) was a popular radio announcer on the KFI radio show Midnight Frolic out of Los Angeles, California, a forerunner of today’s late night television broadcasts, from 1927 to 1930. She was also Associate Editor of “Parade” magazine before it became a Sunday supplement.Kathryn began writing poetry at age 10 and has had three major poetry books published. Kathryn died in February 2005, but a new book of her poetry has been published with the title Goldfish Privacy and is available wherever LDS books are sold or on the Sheralynn Pratt website.
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