When You Hear Your Baby Cry

When you’re present at the birth…when you hear your baby cry when the doctor announces…Congratulations…she’s a girl!” tears flow from your eyes. When you finally take her home…when to the hospital you say goodbye you are a little nervous…when you hear your baby cry. You make sure she isn’t hungry…you hold her close… you hum a lullaby you rock her gently back and forth…when you hear your baby cry. When she gets a little older…you’re quick with medicines to apply when she comes running to you with a bruise…or a cut… when you hear your baby cry. When she comes to you unhappy, troubled…hurting you take the time…you try to ease the pain within her eyes…when you hear your baby cry. When she’s grown up and it’s time for her to go just before she says goodbye you’re there with a hug and a smile…when you hear your baby cry. And throughout her life as you both grow older you’re not sure how…or why even when you’re far apart…you can hear your baby cry. How you wish you were there to hug them to hold them close to hum a lullaby to gently rock them back and forth…when you hear your baby cry. And you marvel after all this time…all the years that have gone by how she’ll always be your baby…how you always hear her cry. And how…even after all these years tears still flow from your eyes just like the day when she was born… when you hear your baby cry.