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Do You Understand the New Father's Fright

I hate how you hurt her
You with your brains inside out
gray fragile thing.
You look like a grossly oversize
condom
mostly wrung out.
Slap you and hit
make you cry.
Your silence and stare
skin of your bones.
Cry baby, Cry baby
cut open our hearts
and scream yourself in.

Copyright © Dan Helppi | Year Posted 2014

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Arthur Vaso Date: 11/1/2014 11:04:00 PM This poem is brilliant, all I can say is amazing!!! Login to Reply Dan Helppi Date: 11/2/2014 11:52:00 AM Thank you, your kindness is what is truly amazing.

Verlena S. Walker Date: 10/27/2014 12:57:00 PM Nice Dan with emotions felt real... Verlena Login to Reply Dan Helppi Date: 10/27/2014 3:48:00 PM Thanks Verlena, I'm glad the poem is appreciated.

Brenda Meier-Hans Date: 10/27/2014 10:24:00 AM This is actually quite brilliant Dan. You have told it like it is. I'm glad you are here and hope you will share many of your unique stories with us. Login to Reply Dan Helppi Date: 10/27/2014 3:47:00 PM Thanks Brenda.

Mama Bear Date: 10/25/2014 9:06:00 PM Wonderful expression of birth. You were definitely a great part of it. Well done Blessings Edith Login to Reply Dan Helppi Date: 10/26/2014 11:44:00 AM Thank you Edith.

Liam Mcdaid Date: 10/25/2014 12:41:00 PM excellent piece of writing just remembering back to my own beautifully penned Login to Reply Dan Helppi Date: 10/25/2014 12:57:00 PM Thank you Liam.

Richard Lamoureux Date: 10/25/2014 8:57:00 AM This is brilliant, you captured the rawness and significance of the experience. Login to Reply Dan Helppi Date: 10/25/2014 10:33:00 AM Thanks Richard.

Dave Timperley Date: 10/25/2014 8:57:00 AM In 1971 I held our 4 seconds old daughter in the palm of my hands, she was so tiny and hardly cried at all . It was a very scary and magical and wonderful and loving and caring time all mixed into one everlasting memory that I have and no one else does. Lovely graphic work Dan. God Bless. D. Login to Reply Dan Helppi Date: 10/25/2014 10:32:00 AM Dave, you understand, you are a father! There is not much we fathers can claim as uniquely ours, but this is only ours. Mothers have much more; feeling movement within, feeding of their milk, pain, and so on, but we do have this crazy moment. Thank you for your kind words.

Eve Roper Date: 10/24/2014 5:06:00 PM I like your prospective view never thought of it that way. Hard to see your wife going through pain to deliver your child, but the pain only last for a little while, then it is forgotten like it never existed when you see your newborn in your arms. :)eve Login to Reply Eve Roper Date: 10/24/2014 8:44:00 PM Hallelujha! in deed <3 loves and hugs eve Dan Helppi Date: 10/24/2014 6:47:00 PM Eve, When I first saw birth, it was crazy different than how I thought, especially the matted hair when the baby's head first crowned, so unexpected, so raw. And then the baby looks not alive, and then the nurse smacks her, and then that perfect ehyahhh! She is alive! And she is ours! Hallelujha!

Andrea Dietrich Date: 10/22/2014 3:42:00 PM I read what you said below to another poet to understand this one better. Yes, it is not a pleasant sight at all!! I do not know why guys are so involved with the whole process, but that is the new way! My daughter had even her in-laws plus me and hubbie in the room as it happened. Good grief. Great title you gave this. Login to Reply Dan Helppi Date: 10/22/2014 8:28:00 PM I wouldn't want to have missed it for sure, but it was scary, ending with soul rocking,sobbing emotion, the closest thing I imagine to the creation of new Love... Thank you for reading!