<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398852" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mother and Child</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">On one of the back benches in church<br>I see a young girl<br>unbuttoning the top of her blouse<br>with slender white fingers<br>to let her baby drink.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His sleepy blue eyes opens<br>and his small lips suck<br>on a swollen nipple<br>and mother and child<br>is framed into my mind<br>like the painting of the Madonna<br>and milk streams into him<br>while the congregation sings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She gazes as through time<br>with uplifted head, <br>giving him power, the love of God<br>as if fixed to the spot while praying<br>and giving him milk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She tenderly touch the baby<br>with every movement<br>echoing great love<br>and he settles sleeping<br>and a smile of tranquillity <br>is on her face.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398852" data-title="Mother and Child de Gert Strydom" data-description="On one of the back benches in church I see a young girl unbuttoning the top of her blouse with slender white fingers to let her baby drink. His sleepy blue eyes opens and his small lips suck on a swollen nipple and mother and child is framed into..."></div> </div> </div>

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