CHUCK CLEMONS, MD, is a board certified pediatrician with The Permanente Medical Group, where he has practiced since 1980. He explains that this poem came to him while driving to work one morning in November of 1995, and was written from his heart to acknowledge that a not yet conceived child was beckoning to his wife and him. Emily Sarah (pictured above) was born March 31, 1997, and is a happy, active two year old.