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SHARED MOMENT
I have it.
The one shared moment.
The moment we looked at my belly and we knew.
Knew all the times of trying not to get pregnant had failed.
The Contraception was like kryptonite to your superman sperm.
I knew it before I told you.
I knew the next morning.
My body told me.
My heart told me.
My Goddess told me.
You see I had said that if it was not meant to be that I wanted to have a child with you.
Not for revenge or even a pettiness that no one else has a child with you.
It was because I know that when I look at the pictures, rub my tummy everyday,
Read and sing to her. She is apart of us. Apart of two lovers caught in time, sharing a moment.
You see I feel it. I see it I know it.
I am the one who rocks her while singing black velvet, and jazz tunes, while reading Law and medical journals, in case she wants to be a doctor or lawyer. I tell her she is strong and can do whatever she wants to.
I even tell her about you and the story of how we met. How both her father and mother love her, and look forward to her coming.
Her name, did you say that you didn’t know her name? She is named for her great grandmother on her mother’s side. I haven’t decided if she will have my last name yours, or both, but that is her name. Charity. Like a beautiful surprising summer rainbow when there isn’t a cloud in the sky.
I share with you this moment this love for this child, and even though things are not what I wanted between us. You will always be her father and I will always be her mother, and we will have shared this moment.
