A child is born.
The heart beats.
A little longer — and it will suffocate
on air filled with chemicals — and its blood thick with opiates.
Nurses curse like sailors.
They have to save a surrogate.
God did not create a human being
so it could suffer for centuries.
The world shatters into tiny shards
in the eyes of that little child.
«Mommy — where are you???»
Silence is the only answer……
2019