name: Kristine K. Lowder
title of work: Peter Pan
date of completion: 02/00
email address: authorI@juno.com

statement: Kristine Lowder has published numerous articles, columns, and poems in a variety of publications including Focus on the Family's "Front Porch", Sierra, Dayspring, and Reader's Digest. She and her husband, Chris, are the proud--and usually exhausted--parents of four rascally, rambunctious boys who love exploring and adventure-ing around their home in the Pacific Northwest.



Peter Pan
(for Josiah)
copyright 2000 Kristine Lowder

Dearest
I crept into your room again
To watch your cherubic slumber
And wondered with a dull, gray ache
When your impish innocence
Will glaze into world-weary wariness,
When gurgling squeals of pristine delight
Will fade to muted musings of prim nonchalance
And squirms of embarrassed reluctance
Resist my showers of kisses?
When Peter Pan will fly,
Our Neverland invaded by Mr. Darling.

But not now.
Not today.

Because This Day
I scoop you into grateful arms
Cradle you to my breast
Marvel at your sweet baby smell
And effervescent radiance
Rejoice in the Miracle of you!

Sequestered within my heart
This maternal moment is mine.
Forever.