Perspectives? Questions? Ramifications.

Brilliant one who picked the most
unfortunate of times to decide to exist,
no matter if the world or I was ready for you--
you came, saw, conquered, and took no prisoners--but
what if you had never been born?

Star-child who dances to the music
of the cosmos, whose light emblazons
constellations, whose songs will reverberate
throughout the millennia to come--but
what if you had never been born?


~*~


You call him a hero; looking up to him
and the who and what he is. Unknown
source of strengthening steel nurtured
by parents of the heart. Makes us all so happy--but
what if he had never been born?

A man who loves you as his own--no distinction,
set three generations into motion, has hands
that dance to the rhythms of the ages and
a heart bigger than most we have ever known--but
what if he had never been born?


~*~


An unknown woman from a different, difficult time
gave the world a gift of her body and heart. I so
wish she could have known the man her child became,
the generations since. Sixteen souls and more: many more--
rejoice that he, was, indeed, born.