New Life

(July 17, 2005)

Peace lies serenely
on my heart
while innocence rests gently
on my shoulder
I am holding...grandson
precious new life brought forth
laboriously...only hours ago...
to begin his journey as a man
on this earth...
I look upon seriousness
in his face foreshown to me
before he came...
his birth eyes are grey... as were his father's...
and reveal..he is still far away
his passage to here...not yet completed...
As I clear my self to take in
the beauty and goodness radiating
from his tiny body
it is an old soul I see...
gathering strength and knowledge
for all that is yet to come...in his life
already laid forth before him
at the moment of his arriving...