colour and light
you wait for your borning, fitfully sleeping,
dreaming in the darkness - of colour and light.
we wait for your borning impatiently,
with love already born and growing.

we are overfull with awe,
amazed by your coming,
curious what your gifts will be,
wondering what messages you bring.

we will hold you soon, and be
overwhelmed by your breathing.
we will watch as you open your eyes
and consider the colour and light that we are.

in all the days and years ahead
as you walk and talk, and think and create
dream always of colour and light
that you not forget this time.

that in the proper times and places,
when you choose the elements of your destiny,
each thing will be a continuity of colour and light
from this fitfull dream before you were born.
a stellar nursery in orion - hubble
© july 2002 Elias
elias1943@shaw.ca
Calgary, Canada
pondering the coming birth of grandson