For all the newborn babies, struggling in the neonatal unit

Life…
Comes in many forms and faces
At different times different places
It matters not to most of us where when how..
When upon us a newborn graces…

So tiny and marvelous…
A little miracle..with 10fingers, 10 toes
To what life lay ahead it…
We wonder ..nobody knows…

But in all our perfect imagination…
We make little room for pain.
We cast little thought to that sinister word…complication…
Devastation.

How can a life ..so tiny..so precious..
Have to face a challenge..so huge...so early on
If only we could take its burden..take the wrong..
But alas all we can do.. is stand back..
And love..and hope..and love…and know..
That above all…we can only love…and hope.

n.cobcroft- 10th june 2003