A Mother's Song

I do hate
these pants

with the panel
that stretches,

balloon-like,
to cover

my babyfat
belly.

At least
when they're tossed

in the hamper
they sprong back,

as taut and as flat
as the day

they enthralled me,
rack after rack,

at Mamas-To-Be.
But that was

five months
and some 30 pounds

lighter, when feet
still existed

and mirrors
were my friend.

They tell me
my abs will,

with crunches,
return to

the steel-like
stomach of

pre-pregnancy.
But I have

my doubts,
so I think

I'll go open
a quart of vanilla

and sing soft
lullabies

of what
he will be.

April 2007

Thoughts of love

From a guys point of view, I think that everything a girl is and does is cute. And I believe that the things that they think aren't perfect about them, is place to come together about. And then it's like saving each other. The guy saves the girl from thinking anything bad about herself, and the girl saves the guy from there being any kind of thinking that he thinks anything bad about her. And then they get to find out the love and truth about each other together. And it also is something between them, that gets to be just for them and personal.

Thanks, perfectlove, for

Thanks, perfectlove, for reading and the comments.

Donna Smith

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