18 toward the Omer

You tell me about the day

when your son

                        went into the kitchen

                                    and you realized he was crying

Mama,

            you quote him to me,

                        For what do people get born

                                    when no matter what they die?

God made it

            so people died,

                        you tell me you told him,

                                    else the next generation

                                                wouldn’t fit!

You tell me this story

            about eight times

                        in the course of an hour

                                    so I still remember