POEM STARTER

Write a poem that shows how a single moment in a person’s childhood still affects them to this day.

It does not have to be a something negative...

Part of series
I Am Home

Chapter 4

Newborn

On one certain day at work,

I got a call from her.


“Hi baby, what’s up?”


“I’m back from the doctor—and guess what.”


“What?”


“I’m pregnant.”


I didn’t know what to say,

so I told her to tell me where she was at right now,

and said I’d be there right away.


I told my manager this,

and he immediately told me I was done for the day.


So I got in my truck and drove back home.


I burst through the front door and saw her in the living area.


“Are you really?”


“Yes, I’m three weeks in.”


I walked over to her and took her in an embrace.


“I’ll be with you, every step of the way.”


After eight months,

I’m standing with her in the hospital.

I’m massaging her hand while she pushes,


Until I hear another voice in the room.


Then the doctor spoke:


“It’s a healthy baby boy.”


She handed him to her,

and I snapped the first family photo,


and slid it into a photo album.

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