Kiddie Porn

Do you trust in the future enough to have kids, Or is family - flailing of heart split in two? Is it more symptomatic of life on the skids Could it be that a child's an extension of you? Is desire to feel love what gives birth to a child? I'm just asking a question here, don't mean to judge, Or an act of amoral libido run wild With a consequence, 'parent,' you're hoping to fudge? Do you think that a child's like an unfinished rhyme? To create what 'outlives' you I well understand But a child is not you, is itself all the time And it's future's more fluid, no way its path's planned! I think poetry too's more a 'gift' of my muse, But my poem's an action I'm dreaming will serve, (Did you make sperm or egg? I don't mean to confuse!) Are you stranger at-bat, life has just thrown a curve? Did I make words that rhyme, or first music, its beat? And my consciousness, time, are both seas I swim in, What I did not create, does this spell my defeat? 'Greater Author' acknowledged might mean we all win! Brian Johnston 30th of July 2018