• I shuffled behind the curtain that blocked my view
    I wince with every sound I hear her make
    Panting, screaming, cursing, waling, crying
    I can hear her but they will not let me see her
    I feel the hand of my grandfather grip me harder
    My hand feels like it’s about to brake from it
    Light flashes over my eyes as I brush the curtain
    A small gape in the veil that blinds me
    I hear her gasping for each breath she took
    I peek through and freeze at the site before me
    Blood pooling, people scuttling place to place
    Momma crying, Mamma fretting, doctors sweating
    “One more push now, just one more”
    The doctors ready for the ketch as he speaks
    Her body trembles then a violent scream erupts
    She shrieks and wails then gasps as a new scream is heard
    “It’s a beautiful baby girl and she has your voice”
    He cleans then hands her to my mother
    I tremble with excitement as I wait to be called in
    My fingers twitch with the need to touch them
    To see and feel that there all okay and unharmed
    My mother, my new sister, my grandmother
    I poled at my grandpa’s grip hoping and praying he would let go
    One good tug was all it would take to get away
    Suddenly his grip is gone just how I had wished it
    I look at him and he smiles back at me with tearing eyes
    I run into the room dashing out of nurses reach
    I dash to my mother’s side and clasp her hand so to not be poled away
    She smiles at me sweat dripping from her face and sliding into her eyes
    I take a clean cloth from the side of the bed and wipe it all off
    I smile at her then to my mamma then I look at the bundle in my mothers arms
    Small delicate hands reach out, soft blue eyes look up and her little feet begin to kick
    I lay my finger in her tiny hand and gasped as her fingers raped around it
    So soft, so gentile, and yet so strong was that small hand and grip
    A giggle and then a gasp from all over the room
    as she smiled and giggled with my finger in her hand
    Such beauty and such innocents that I have never seen before has just been born to me
    God has given me an angel for a sister and I know that I am truly blest for this gift