shillelagh law (joneal) wrote, @ 2008-03-20 16:08:00

For Lilly
or Lilly Bean Jinko, endearingly


Baby.
My little Lilly Bean.
They set a date for you to spring
into this world,
to first unfold your petals,
but you did not listen
to that refined medical wisdom
and came on your own terms-
early.

You entered the air
with a scream that no surgeon
had to induce with a smack,
I swear you spat out the amniotic
fluid on your own,
even earned yourself a scalpel nick
to the cheek in your eagerness
to be free.

Restless, even in the womb
and I've no doubt
that these are telling signs
to the way you will be in life,
to the way you'll think,
to the thorn you will refine
your sweetness into and place
in the side of anything that obstructs you
from getting where you want to go.

Even though the peace
a satisfying fart brings
is all the philosophy you need for now,
I can see it in you-
a tiny spark that will be
a far reaching fire.

But for now Lilly Bean,
you're simply

my baby daughter

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