Where do babies come from?
Somewhere from up above.
So below I came.
Hello, beautiful mother
Hello, bold father
Hello, brave sister.
My heart beats alongside the rhythm of yours
There was room in the house for another
A space just for me.
I was supposed to be a big bump and then a baby on all fours.
Would I have my father’s kind eyes
My mother’s wide smile
Or even my sister’s mischievous laugh?
But you would never know
Because the only pictures you had of me were black and white
I looked like a bean.
Lub-Dub Lub-Dub…It stopped
I’m sorry
I’m sorry I left a hole.
But I had to go
“She won’t make it,” the doctor said.
I had to save a wife and a mother.
Goodbye, broken mother
Goodbye, battered father
Goodbye, baffled sister.
So up I went.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.