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"Sweet death, small son, our instrument of immortality..."

This is an ironic metaphor because typically in literature children are thought to signify and represent life and happiness when in this poem the child represents death.

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The speaker is a mother reflecting on how no matter how at times when we are young we (or in this case your child) may feel that we can live forever but in the end we all progress in life and can never stay in a single moment.

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There is meaning beyond the literal in the phrase "cries and hunger." As a small child their main focus is eating and when they don't receive that needed food they show they are upset through tears and crying. Later in life, as a teenager and further, different concerns arise that we begin to feel override those concerns we had as children. While in reality, making sure we are fed should truly be one of our main focus because without food we would die.

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The repetition of "my son" is used because as the reader reads the poem one can understand that a large theme is that of time and how no matter how long we think we may have the grave truth is we all go at one point. The repetition of "my son" is to emphasize that even though life goes on, beyond a sweet moment with your child and you may pass and life gets in the way, it is still "[her] son."

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My son, my ending point
I hold you in my arms
Delicate and quiet
Our body heat warming one another

Death can be sweet, delicate son, can be used to express
Our daily lives as humans with our daily needs
We all slowly perish

Young now
Think we can live forever in our youth
Seeing those around us pass away
Realize we all eventually pass