My Child Wafts Peace
My Child Wafts Peace - meaning Summary
Innocence as Fragile Peace
The poem contrasts a small child’s quiet, intimate peace with a wider national grief. The speaker finds solace in the child’s presence and scent, while images of a devastated land, broken communities and bereft fathers underscore loss and emptiness. The mother’s womb is presented as a source of promised continuity and comfort that even God cannot guarantee, highlighting fragile hope amid collective trauma.
Read Complete AnalysesMy child wafts peace. When I lean over him, It is not just the smell of soap. All the people were children wafting peace. (And in the whole land, not even one Millstone remained that still turned). Oh, the land torn like clothes That can't be mended. Hard, lonely fathers even in the cave of the Makhpela* Childless silence. My child wafts peace. His mother's womb promised him What God cannot Promise us.
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