Didn't Ask For

They're boxer boys
they play with toys
I spank their buns
and feed them crumbs
I make them laugh
they make me cry
They want for love
I wonder why.

I didn't dream, I didn't pray
I didn't ask for them anyway
But they are mine and mine to keep
entertain, feed, train, and put to sleep.

Mom grow up and face the fact
you can't have your old life back
You'd miss them so, you'd go insane
so what is worse, this or that pain?

Couldn't have ever given birth
if not for those two kids first
Wouldn't have held my own newborn
smelled the sweet little head, bonded, nursed.

Mother lioness would never awaken
to fiercely defend her cubs;
to walk alone, learn to be strong,
overcome the insults and snubs.

They are mine; they're all I've got
Didn't mean to complain, make it sound like strife
I made them, bore them with my body and
they're my job, resonsibility, and life.

Or a part of my life; there's always room for more
but till confusion's resolved & under control
who'll believe I can be trusted with more
than this lot in life, independence as goal?

Did that, so now to soccer and art class
wrestling, camping, biking and scouts
breaking up fights, teaching respect
day after day after year after year
voiding our mutual doubts.

PamEhli/2001
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