Adoption
I have two daughters
Each beautiful and smart
One born from my loins
And one born from my heart.
My biological offspring
I call "mini-me"
My eyes, my temper,
My need to be free.
The day she was born
My life felt renewed
By this chubby, sweet cherub
White, raven-haired, nude.
I "get" how she thinks
I know how she feels
I know how to fix it
So each broken part heals.
Five years flew by
And like the kick of a fetus
My heart sack swelled
For a child to need us.
And so my next girl
Came forth from my love
A four-year-old beauty
Sent down from above.
No copy of me
This brown, wondrous child!
Her questions so fierce,
Imagination so wild!
I wondered at first
How much feeling could bloom
For a child who came
From another mom's womb.
But soon I would realize
Like her sister before her
I would do anything to
Protect and adore her.
So proudly I brag of
Girls born worlds apart:
One born of my womb
And one born of my heart!
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