To My Firstborn

I've always loved you best

because you were our first miracle.

You were the genesis of a marriage...

The fulfillment of young love, the promise of our infinity.

You sustained us through the hamburger years...

The first apartment furnished in early poverty...

Our first mode of transportation...

The seven inch TV set we paid for for thirty six months.  

You were new,Had unused grandparents,

And had more clothes than a Barbie doll.

You were the "original model"

for unsure parents trying to get the bugs out. 

You got the strained lamb, open pins and three hour naps.

You were the Beginning.