A Child Is Born!

Doctors rushing around,
Nurses scurrying in and out,
Of emergency rooms,
The doors flipped about;
In the wee hours,
Among the hospital crowd.

Operational tools were flung about,
Bags of blood ready no doubt;
Surgeons take deep breaths before stepping in,
To the room that determines life and death,
In between.

The young mother,
Filled with fear,
Despite being calmed by relatives,
Far and near;
Put to sleep by the surgeons,
And they soon got to work,
Without any hesitations.

As the hours tick by,
And the clock chimes to five;
The young father conquered by anxiety,
Tries many a time to return to reality;
Roaming those gloomy corridors was he,
Praying and chanting heartily.

Then,
Hear that,
A baby's cry,
The atmosphere suddenly,
Filled with joy;
Surgeons stepped out with their heads held high,
While the young couple with,
Tears in their eyes!

Perching birds start to chirp,
While the early sun starts to shine;
Heaven smiles down on the happy couple,
Signifying the beginning of a new life cycle,
Hence, when a child is born!

  This poem written in 09/07/2007 was one of my first early poems ever to surface, and from there on has help mii in my writing progress. This poem symbolizes the joy, anxiety and many other mixed emotions one can experience during child birth.

  And to focus more on the parents themselves, one could see no matter how contrasting things may be amongst couples, but when it comes to matters like these, the both share the same feelings, most importantly, the welcoming of a new-born into their happy family. Written based on the true experience of watching a couple in the midst of fighting for joy and happiness as a family, I would like to dedicate this poem to them.

  Though I don't know their whereabouts or how things have turned out to be for them, I wish them all the luck, as happiness, portrayed in their eyes when their child was born!



Signing out:
Nickel Low Chen Jie