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's articles, poems, and spoken word videos have been featured on The Gospel Coalition, Risen Motherhood, Journey Women, Fathom Mag, and The Witness: BCC. She resides in Tampa, FL with her husband Jon and beautiful, three-year-old daughter. Quina's first children's book, Love Made, is a poetic retelling of the creation story that highlights God as the Trinity, humans as His image bearers, and children as a delightful gift.