Light floods into the mind of the baby, just born.
He blinks his eyes in the blinding, white light.
How new everything is; the air against his wet skin, the gloved hands wrapped tightly around him, his mother's bare breast, heaving with tears of relief, beneath his cheek.
He does not cry, for fear he might miss a sound.
A sight.
And as his surroundings come into focus, he sees the world around for the first time.
But he doesn't see it for what it really is.
His new found conciousness is bursting with innocence.
And his naive eyes are yet to witness the cruelty that man can bestow upon him.
The expectations that await him are great.
And the life he will live full of disappointment.
But now, in this moment, in the arms of his mother
He is cradled with a security like no other.
And until he grows
And his innocence is ripped from him by an uncaring world,
She will shield him from its evils.
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