The Baby

For Micah on his 30th birthday

you arrived to exponential adoration;

small sun at the center of a happy solar system.

over time your light deepened in purpose,

finding equal joy-measure in ease and in effort, 

with gravity mooring and buoying you in turn.

my earnest one,

what I wish for you is

in this moment

pause.

appreciate how far you have traveled,

and how tenderly.

know in your bones the love you set going

the day you came into this world shaped us,

seven emphatic hatch marks retraced by a newborn’s finger,

the beginning of our steady lesson

in miracles, and how they work.