Stranger to your sight

Stranger to your sight

Child afar, I speak to you

as darkness shrouds your sleep

and brings me here to burn this light

and share what shines so deep

A stranger to your sight am I

though not your native blood

of which I ask to show you more

beyond maternal love

A lullaby though she will sing

to comfort you to dreams

yet know her song can flame the heart

its passions and all it seems

Know her for her wild embrace

her fears, her joys, and more

that will be just outside your reach

a gentleness beyond whats yours

And know your blood is not unshared

and in that knowledge grow

and wonder at the loveliness

that she has thus bestowed

And as my light begins to fade

and yours does start to glow

I ask that I may catch you wake

and see what I now know

----Siv Maria

---written through the eyes of a father who would never meet his son.