Where are the fathers?
Our sons and daughters grow
Up to maturity to know
Mostly a mother’s touch
Pregnancy is a woman’s world
They tell me
Women’s books and women’s parties
Do fathers not feel
The sting of birth?
Do they not need advice
Encouragement? To bring a child
Into the world
Well?
I don’t know
Where fathers go
Maybe they do not go at all
Maybe this maternal world was not
Constructed with them in mind
But why then
Should we criticize
Them for daring not
To enter?
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