Fifth Born
Strong in my foetal memory,
Lies knowledge of distress.
Of wrinkled, horrid, prune like home,
Where others took the best.
From puny, feeble blood supply,
Umbilically, I starved.
In dried up shrivelled carapace,
My small new life was carved.
Within that worn and wrinkled home,
I'm sure my feet'll kick it through.
I muse upon fragility,
And wonder at my birth anew.
Siblings stole the freshness that,
I should have had for me.
Birth's feat'll be a burden such,
As none should have to see.
My dad would not have taken,
Second hand tattoos.
But then he chose to impregnate,
A womb that's four times used.
They conspired to create me,
In a place unfit for one.
Bound to befeat allegiance,
Between parents and their son.