A Merely, Mighty Inch

My sister will appreciate this post. It's a poem. In honor of Isaac's first inch of growth since his birth. Now I wrote this after his first ultrasound when he was approximately one inch big. Now, he's 21 inches. And I'm still amazed by it all.

A MERELY, MIGHTY INCH

What love is there in spaces wide,
In oceans, lands, seas and skies.
The same love is there and it fits
In all of that merely, mighty inch.

Where life begins and carries forth
To tears and love and merry mirth
Not time, nor space, nor size deters,
That love that grows.

And as it were
Reflects, really, all we know
That God was man in manner and means
How then, as now, holy heaven teamed
As divine and man were surely pinched
Into that merely, mighty inch.

Where and why and how indeed
We are left to ponder. So it seems
What was so small, yet loved so large.
God. Imaged in this finite world
Bound and formed in mortals' fall.

You're reflective of that divine call
That God 'came man, so to wrench
Us all - in that merely, mighty inch.