The Joy in anything that has life within

Be it a baby just born, or a new born pup, or an eagle

Be it the flower that just bloomed

Anything that has life within is beautiful.

Watch the baby move, the baby twaddle and babble

The joy it fills you is indeed immense

The syllable sounds, the da-ba-da-ba and the la-la-

though you wouldn't understnad, still make you smile

I see the same joy in my baby turtles

I watch them move, I watch them eat

I watch them crawl, I watch them sleep

But they seem to still look inanimate to me

Yet I smile.

And for long I wondered, if I could expect a little more out of them

And it’s today, when I realized growth is captivating

From a tiny speck in the bucket for a time so long

that Left with me just no hopes, of them growing

To the reality I see now

When I stopped to expect, is when they surprised me

Those little petty things with life within

They never fail to amaze me. They know me well by now,

They know how I hidingly watch them

With time, I watched them swim and climb the rock

I watched them make some rapid moments

In all that I gave my hopes on, they taught me with time every little thing learns

Oh what a Joy..Oh what a beautiful thing

Only if they could talk, they 'd tell me a million things

Since they don’t, they just look at me

A look that makes my heart melt..

It now sinks into me,

The Joy of any mother watch its child grow

And yes...so would the muma turtle of my little babies watch them with pride

As they learn to bloom into what they meant to be.

Indeed, anything that breathes is beautiful

And my heart is filled with joy.