Welcome to the Dollhaus

Image:  Devotion by Julia Margaret Cameron 1865

I breathe you in

You smell of bilberry shampoo

and 

my child

I watch as 

in sleep you toss and turn

I watch the

gentle heaving of your chest

as you breathe in
and then 
breathe out

Your cheeks are

the softest thing

that I have ever known

Your eyes with their 

beautiful long lashes

Your nose so tiny 

and perfect

Your sweet baby lips 

shaped like a kiss

Oh how I overflow with heaven

at the sight of you now

my sleeping child

And how I long to live over again

all the days past 

that I have spent

holding you close 

on this earth

my sweet, sweet Ariel

I stroke your golden hair

and you turn to me

my hands fill with silken ringlets

as you roll gently 

into my arms

And I know

this is happiness


happy mother's day