Although we didn’t plan the pregnancy,
we welcomed it with pride and gratitude.
And 8 months later, we learned how to be
engaged in work more vital than we dreamed –
an unremitting labor: infancy
to kid to teen, unglamourous and tough.
Of course there were some signs we failed to see,
our vision by fatigue and closeness skewed.
You call that arrogance? Try empathy.