This poem was very sad and touching for me. It talks about how a young couple feels after losing their son. This piece of work is a great example for portraying how genuine and strong the bond between parent and child can be. In lines 7-8 it says "Your cries and hunger document/ our bodily decay". This provides evidence that the parents are having difficulty dealing with their loss, and that having something so close to them slip away can "eat away" at you emotionally. The last stanza is also significant because it tells us, (the readers) that they are feeling like hypothetically, a piece of them has died along with their beloved child. The parents were just as reliant on the baby and the baby was on them. The joy and happiness that a child brings changes you and becomes a reason for living. Even though I'm not a parent, my parents have told me many times over the year that having kids was the best thing they ever did.
Parents dream about how their child will carry on their memories and make a life for them-self, carry on family traditions and whatnot. They see that even though they may die, they have the responsibility of providing the information needed so their children can carry those things after the parents die. So its as if the parents never die, their spirit lives on in their children. But these parents are watching those dreams and hopes die with the child. And in essence, they feel as though they are dying as well.
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