How soon will we meet this child
whose chosen so insistently
to take up residence
within our daughter's womb?

The first trimester over now
without a hitch
all looking good
the soon-to-become parents
have decided not to learn
if she or he's a girl or boy

Having waited for what seemed
to us a small eternity
they are of course elated
and we too are full of thoughts
and plans of when
and how to visit
and will we be here
to see her - or him - graduate
from grade school
high school
college
so we race ahead
in our imaginations

It's just the eagerness we're feeling
impatient for the joys
we know will grace this birth
this presence of a new love
in our daughter's
and her husband's life
and in our lives
a child, a grandchild
there's no greater gift
that we could ask for