Dear RaeLynn

Welcome to this world of suns and skies
and rivers and mountains
The first choice you made, who to be born to,
is one of the best you'll get the chance to make
and one day, I promise, after you've raged and ranted
as a teenager, felt misunderstood, you'll know.
When you're grown, and you can ride a horse with your mother
and ride an ATV with your father,
When you can read and write, and you can see
the words your mother wrote to you, before you
came out into this world of whispered mornings and
murmured evenings,
when you can see how your brother smiled when you
were nothing but lines of gray and white on a screen,
when you can listen to how he taught you to karate kick
from within the womb
When you are grown, little miss, tell them with words of your own,
with images and memories and laughter of your own, tell them
they were the best family to be born to.