Baby’s Cry

Baby is a precious gift adored
by mother and father.
A little bundle of baby smells,
small noises and pudgy cuteness.

Little rose lips making sucking
sounds, small fist ready to grasp
a finger or dangling hair, folds of fat
indicating mother’s milk is good
to nurture the little progeny in those first

precious days of infancy.
Her cry, a little whimper,
barely heard except by the mother

or the family's curious cat.
Sometimes when everything is quiet
or special guests arrive

there is a tendency to check
on baby to see if she's awake
to see the color of her eyes

and hopefully to hear her coo
but if she wakes unexpectedly
she cries, and cries, and cries

so the lesson of the story...
watch her to see her breathing
but let sleeping babies lie.