Just Those Few Weeks

Cooper,

We only had you for 9 days but they were the best days of our life.  The 34 weeks I was pregnant with you were also some of the best montsh of my life.  I have so many happy memories of being pregnant with you, going places and seeing things.  Looking forward to the day when you wouold be able to share them with us.  We had so many things planned for you.  Daddy was going to take you fishing with Papa Don.  I was going to teach you how to read.  And we were going to take you Disney World.

We have different dreams for you know.  We want to raise money so this doesn't happy to other babies.  We want to be able to help other mommies and daddies who those their little boys and girls.  We love you so much and want to make you proud as you Momma and Daddy.

Just Those Few Weeks

For those few weeks--

I had you to myself

And that seems too short a time

to be changed so profoundly.

In those few weeks--

I came to know you

and to love you.

You came to trust me with your life.

Oh, what a life I had planned!

Just those few weeks--

When I lost you.

I lost a lifetime of hopes,

plans, dreams, and aspirations...

A slice of my future simply vanished overnight.

Just those few weeks--

It wasn't enough time to convince others

how special and important you were.

How odd, a truly unique person has recently died

and no one is mourning this passing.

Just a mere few weeks--

And no 'normal' person would cry all night

over a tiny, unfinished baby,

or get depressed and withdrawn day after endless day.

No one would, so why am I?

You were just those few weeks my little one

you darted in and out of my life too quickly.

But it's seems that's all the time you needed

to make my life so much richer

and give me a small glipse of eternty.

Susan Erling Martinez, 1984

You were our world for 9 days, Our angel forever!

Momma and Cooper Michael, 1 day old

love you to the moon and back,

Momma