A poem I found this morning...

I never have been in that situation before
it's not as if I have become envious
of others that have achieved fatherhood
it's just that children are something to be prized
not just something to add to the world

I know you think that I could not care for this baby
and maybe you are right
It is just that there is something there
that I feel must be said
and that I care what happens
I might not be able to do anything about it
but I care anyways....




The poem was written (based on the typewritten paper) probably in the early 1980's, before I was married and had children. It could have been in response to the paternity suit that was filed against me in the last 1970's or it could have been in response to an abortion one of my girlfriends had when I was in college.