Creation.

We are husband and wife today.
From these nurses presumptions 
To God's grand gesture:
A beautiful baby girl.

Married under all eyes but this perfect pair,
opening once, a twitch; twice, more surely.
Melting every heart that dared to gaze,
lose itself in those infinite pools.

To those eyes we are mother and father,
in that order.

From pure thought to this perfect form,
a thing of unmingled love is born.
Here, no bigger than my forearm.

I smile, something added to the world today,
whilst nothing, nothing was taken away.


Cor, Dec 1996