Just as the sun was rising,
Adding light to the glassy roads
and the moon was lazily bowing
to the storm that lashed it's whip
my daughter was born<p>She came like that storm
Quick, fercious and didn't let go
Her heart quickening to my fever
Her body in tune with mine
She forced her way out into the world<p>My husband's voice exhilerated
like I have never heard
So joyful and merry like a child
On a wintery Christmas morning
"She's here! She's here!" he cried.<p>The moment seemed to stop time
And the world slowed down to her rythym
As we watched her blue eyes open
for the first time to take us in
And see the world<p>But all that changed with a blink of her eye
As each breath became louder
Her body struggling for life
Her eyes became lost somewhere
We had never seen<p>And that was the beginning of our journey
Ten long days of hell
Watching our little girl hooked up to monitors
Beeps haunting my sleep so I couldn't close my eyes
without hearing the alarms of those machines<p>All I wanted was to hold her forever
and ever,
And I would kiss her gently over and over
hoping I could just kiss her boo boo's away<p>Through all of my pain, my doubt, my fears
My husband was like a rock
We spent many nights just crying into each other's arms
And he talked to me with a gentleness I had never seen before.<p>Finally, after ten days of tests and nightmares,
nothing could be found
And when I heard the pitter patter of my son's feet
rushing down the hall to the beat of my husband's suede shoes,
I knew, I just knew
We could go home.<p>Those days spent seemed like an eternity
And I learned enough to last a lifetime
About pain, longing, love, suffering, hope and fear
And the power of love between a husband
and a wife
And that nothing is more precious or mysterious
than the birth of a child.