Little child,

You are so perfect lying here in my arms,

Looking up at me with your big dark eyes

Blue like a starless midnight sky.

You are so impossibly small, so fragile,

But still so perfect in every single way

So real in the weight that I feel when I hold you,

In the strong grip of you tiny hand around one of my fingers.

My little Isabella, my dark-haired little angel,

I've loved you since the moment you drew your first breath

From the first time you kicked inside of me

In response to a lullaby I sang one night.

I will watch you grow up as the years go by,

And I will always love you no matter what,

Because you are as much a part of me as my heart,

And I could not live without either one.