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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.]