Even on a good day.

My darkest fear

and biggest regret

are all the children I never thought to have

because aren’t we to go out and multiply?

But then I see the one that God

has given me on a short, lifetime loan,

an embodiment of all those children

I never thought to have. Her sculptured skin

and carefully carved heart, her moving lips

and wind-whipped hair, are all the things I

could never think to own, even on a good day.