Adoption

I have two daughters Each beautiful and smart One born from my loins And one born from my heart. My biological offspring I call "mini-me" My eyes, my temper, My need to be free. The day she was born My life felt renewed By this chubby, sweet cherub White, raven-haired, nude. I "get" how she thinks I know how she feels I know how to fix it So each broken part heals. Five years flew by And like the kick of a fetus My heart sack swelled For a child to need us. And so my next girl Came forth from my love A four-year-old beauty Sent down from above. No copy of me This brown, wondrous child! Her questions so fierce, Imagination so wild! I wondered at first How much feeling could bloom For a child who came From another mom's womb. But soon I would realize Like her sister before her I would do anything to Protect and adore her. So proudly I brag of Girls born worlds apart: One born of my womb And one born of my heart!