The Miracle of Birth

There was a hush everywhere as if the world was on pause an expectancy stirring in the air not a single sound just silence What was happening out there? far away, deep in the outback a circle stood made of animals each with ears pricked forward Staring intently, still as statues hardly a breath being drawn in the middle giving birth A beauteous snow white deer The fawn is born, a collective sigh stirs from the spell bound audience here she is, the promised princess a plaintive cry as she struggles to her feet There in the moonlight she stands regal from the tip of her nose proudly her mother shows her off Bambi moves forward to join them Trembling legs all going each way Bambi nuzzles her as she stands this he seems to say is my heir all the animals approach and kneel Paying their homage to Silver exclaiming at her beauty peace will reign the forest all drawn together by the birth