New Life

There is a tiny life inside you

Growing

Forming a curve in your silhouette

That was not previously there.

I kneel

And I hear a heartbeat

And I know.

This is something precious.

This is something more valuable

Then anything money can buy.

This is a miracle.

A chill runs through me.

The world makes me afraid for this child,

But this child gives me hope for the world.

I would knock down walls, 

I would burn down forests,

I would crawl up mountains

To protect this child.

And if this child,

This small person we haven't met yet,

Is worth so much,

Maybe

Maybe I am too?