A Poem for Hope

All Along

I loved you all along

For many years before you were born

I longed to feel your touch

Somehow I always knew

I could never gave up on you

I imagined how you would look

your eyes, your nose, your hair

I knew nothing else would ever compare

For seven years I waited to hear your little cry

And from the first moment I saw you

I knew you were the one

The one I loved all along

---Patricia Carignan