I chose

amaze me
little life

bump in my belly
flutterings and thumps inside
amaze me

peace
spoke softly to my heart
a prayer and
you would always
move
just a little when
worry chimed in.

wonder

little boy
inside

silence
not telling
the outside world so unforgiving
needing all the peace I could find
outward silent
inward joyous!
blissful!
content in my happy growing middle

soon
you were here
in your Daddy’s hands
on my abdomen
at my breast
purplepink
quiet
alert
Heaven

Erin Ross Behnke