The Baby Debate

Babies, babies everywhere

Usually, it's your opinion I share

We're too old, too tired, too busy

But the babies all around me are making me dizzy

I'm rational, realistic and levelheaded

It would be enough for me if we were just wedded

Barely in our forties, but our youth in the past

But I feel that the baby window is closing fast

We each have our own and have been down this road a time or two

But they're all growing up so fast, and I've never gotten to have one with you

Robbed of that chance, I feel like we missed out on what should've been our life, our destiny

But I feel blessed for the boys we have, and I will be happy if that's all that's meant to be

Babies are loud and they're too expensive

And, truthfully, I really do like the way we live

So many obstacles stand in the way

A vasectomy, decreased fertility, how to pay

It all gets so technical and sterile and void of romance

I wonder if there is even the slightest chance

All the procedures we'd need to endure

So, with this decision, we both must be sure

Will we regret it and wish we had chosen a different path

I don't want to end up in the poor house for not doing the math

I'm so busy, would a surrogate be the way to go

A nanny is fine for after, but with a surrogate, can a bond grow

Then there's the smell of their hair

That special bond that only you two share

The way they hold onto you as if you hold the key to their heart

The look of total terror in their eyes whenever you must part

A small piece of me and a small piece of you

Someone we create together something we chose to do

The one we were supposed to have years ago

The dream that neither of us quite let go

Here we are, decades later, together again

Has too much time passed, too much life been

Or was it always meant to be this way, We're older and wiser and more ready today

It may never work, and I need you to know, that I'm happy with just us if that's God's plan

But if this is possible and my last chance, then I know you are the perfect man

They'll all talk about us and say we're too old and crazy

But this is how I chose to tell you; I'd like to try to have your baby

A topic of much discussion lately in my home. Since he started reading my poetry on here, I thought this may be a unique way to tell him that I would like to go on this journey with him. That is, if he's game?