As I love you through the glass

a tiny hand sweeps across the blanket

reaching out to me.

You lie there in the stillness

of your slumber clinging to life;

I reach inside to touch you

and you stir slightly;

I feel a tiny breath like a feather

caress my fingers

as I love you through the glass.

One eye opens

easily staring into mine;

Can you see me?

Can you feel my presence

as I love you through the glass.

I ache to hold you;

I await the moment

when you peacefully rest in my loving arms.

A silent tear rolls down my face;

I slowly turn to walk away

only to glance back one more time

as I love you through the glass.

-Elena Murphy

It’s the little things that make life worth living,

It’s the little things that help us make it through.

I never knew how true those words were,

Until I first set my eyes on you.

I feared because it was too early;

I cried because it was too soon.

Yet I underestimated

The strength in one as small as you.

You were born a fighter, a warrior;

You would not quit nor move on.

You strove, you fought, you tried,

Until your battle was won.

When hope might have faded,

When the trial seemed too great,

A tiny child, despite the odds,

Fought what was thought fate.

And a little baby triumphed,

A baby thought too small to live,

A baby knew that life

Is the most precious thing to give.

–Ashley Rae Barnes

RE:
Are there any beautiful quotes about having a miracle newborn?
I was just looking for a quote about having a newborn baby. She was born premature and is hospitalized until original due date. Or a poem? Thanks!

A baby is God’s opinion that life should go on. Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn baby. The finest of our precision watches, the most super-colossal of our supercargo planes don’t compare with a newborn baby in the number and ingenuity of coils and springs, in the flow and change of chemical solutions, in timing devises and interrelated parts that are irreplaceable.”

Carl Sandburg quotes (American Historian, Poet and Novelist, 1878-1967)