BIRTH OF A CHILD

there they go

            beginning life

                        all over again

the world is a cowering

            coward of a place

                        won’t stand up

for itself    what

            do they have in mind

                        creating hope

wrong anyway

            hope was always there

                        fluttering

its little

            pockmarked flag

                        why

be so grandiose

            just do something

                        now and then