By Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris

2022 April Poem-A-Day Challenge For today’s prompt, write a moving on poem. Posted by ROBERT LEE BREWER

carrying you within myself
terrifyingly secure within me
first kick let me know you were there

many kicks more until then
your time to enter this new world
arriving just fine and exactly on time

just now I looked up to see
a young man all grown now on his own without me not needing a mom

so it’s time to move on and let go