When we are babies
We are swaddled in diapers,
Wiped and powdered and soft tushes kissed.
Then again, when we are old,
Mattering if you are a guy or a girl,
Either we can’t pee
Or we can’t stop peeing,
And must be swaddled
Again. This time no sweet powders and
No kisses.
© Susan Lynn Gesmer, When, 2008