A Baby Changes Everything

This is a poem I have been "laboring" over recently and I wanted to share it with you. Please don't think I am a kid-hater after you read it -- I'm definitely not. I don't have children, but I enjoy spending time with my nieces and nephews and my friends' kids when I have the chance.

A BABY CHANGES EVERYTHING

When a baby is born

The first thing it does is cry

It knows this is the day

Its innocence dies

It takes its first breath

And quickly takes another

Looks around the room

For its so-called mother

Who forces a smile

Then goes to sleep

And prays the lord

Her soul to keep

She isn’t much more

Than a baby herself

How’s she supposed to

Take care of someone else?

Her friends all told her

It’s cool to be a mom

But in her mind

A baby is like a bomb

‘Cause when it drops

Your life becomes a mess

And it never goes back

To normal-ness

When a baby is born

It opens its eyes and screams
Because it realizes

The futility of its dreams