Courtney: Prose Poem

Newborn

Of all the babies they could have had, Ms. Big Brown Eyes came to them. She was full in size. Bundled tightly in the hospital cloth with a full head of dark brown hair. Mother, never before a mother, smiled a teary smile. When the baby hit mother’s large, swollen arms she blinked her brand new eyes slowly trying to suckle from mother’s breast. Father stood at their side and starred in baby’s eyes with a quiet, proud, smile, eyes teary like mother’s. Baby was finally there, healthy. The new parents sighed and their bodies relaxed as they finally got to see the miracle mother’s womb housed for forty long weeks.   And how beautiful their child was. More beautiful than mother could have ever asked for.  Mother blushed at the thought of new child seeing her new mother for the first time. Mother and father relaxed as they had their new child, as a family, never before a family.