Me to baby. God to me. (When You Can’t Sleep)
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Me to baby. God to me. (When You Can’t Sleep)

By January 24, 2017August 21st, 2019No Comments

When You Can’t Sleep
“As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you,” – Isaiah 66:13

When you can’t sleep
you scream for me
until I hold you
next to my breast
arm under your neck
while I sing, you’re
close enough to feel me breathe
close enough to look up at me
between
increasingly long blinks,
checking if our eyes
still meet.

I won’t leave you
even when I lay you down
Your cries alarm my
compassion, and how
can I forsake
my own child?

Quina Aragon

Quina Aragon

Quina Aragon is an author, editor, and spoken word artist residing in Orlando, FL, with her husband and daughter. Over the past 10+ years, Quina has worked as a digital content writer, copy editor, and book author, covering topics in art, culture, life issues, faith, advocacy, and more. She is the author of the children's book trilogy, Love Made, Love Gave, and Love Can, which poetically retells Scripture's story through a Trinitarian lens of love. She is also the author of Love Has a Story: 100 Meditations on the Enduring Love of God, which invites you to explore God’s love as it has existed and moved throughout (and before) time, and how it intends to transform your own life story. She has helped create projects through her writing, editing, offering creative vision, and/or performing for clients like Christianity Today, Vū Virtual Production Studios, YouVersion Bible App, The Gospel Coalition, The Good Book Company, Harvest House, Bethany House Publishers, Risen Motherhood, Proverbs 31 Ministries, Training Leaders International, and many more.

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