Luisa Esperanza

You could have been a boy,

I believed you were to be a girl.

You would have had eyes

Like an amber sunrise and hair

Like coffee colored curly

Shredded silk sheets on

Which you were conceived

In vain... and yet you will

Forever run deep in my veins

Even though I never saw your face and

You never felt the sun upon it -

You live forever in the

Splendor of God's heavenly sunshine.

Luisa Esperanza - hope in your name -

I hoped to name you, and still I only

Feel the pain from the minute it took to

Extract you from your resting place...

I am ashamed. I played a game with your life,

The game was lost, and so am I without

Your laughter lived outside my vivid memory

Of getting what I deserved and feel

I no longer do - you.