Upon a Baby's Chest (expanded from chat)

Upon a Baby's Chest

Tears upon a baby's chest
Pain in a mother's throat
How is she to care for him
The child on whom she dotes

Cracked and blistered is the hand
Tremblin' with diaper and pin
To place upon the toddlin' child
How can you call life sin?

Tears upon a mother's face
Worry upon the brow
Alone and friendless, no family,
But she carries on somehow

Growing up together
Mother-child and son
She cries to see the trusting eyes
And finds her heart undone

Mother-love is precious
The hardships now endured
No rest for her teenaged feet
Till his comfort is assured

Can a back be turned to this?
Can eyes be tightly closed?
How can a person turn away,
Another look down their nose?

Rejoice at the choice she made,
The path that she has chosen,
For easily could her back be turned
And her heart be frozen.