Just Those Few Weeks

For those weeks,
I had you to myself
And that seems way too short a time
To be changed so profoundly

In those few weeks
I came to know you and to love you
And you came to trust me with your life
And oh what a life I had planned for you

Just those few weeks
And then I lost you
I lost a lifetime of hopes and plans and dreams
A slice of my future vanished overnight

Just those few weeks
There wasn't enough time to convince others
How special and important you were
How odd....
A truly unique person has died
And few mourn the passing

Just a few weeks
We cry all night
Over a tiny unfinished baby

You were just those few weeks
My little one
You darted in and out of my life too quickly
But it seems that is all the time you needed
To make my life so much richer
And to give me a glimpse of eternity