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ANTLER

 

 

Doesn’t Have to Believe to Be Born

 

A baby in the womb

doesn’t have to believe

its Mother exists

to be born.

A baby inside its Mother

doesn’t have to believe

it’s inside its Mother

to be born.

A baby in utero

doesn’t have to believe

it will be born

to be born.

An unborn baby

doesn’t have to believe in

life after birth

to be born

grow up

live long

life before death.

A baby in the womb

doesn’t have to believe

in God to be born

in a savior to be born

in a soul to be born

in immortality to be born

in heaven to be born.

Baby in the womb

one night,

Next night

baby nursing

in its Mother’s arms.

 

 

[Originally published in NHS 2006, http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs06/Antler.htm.]