How would the world benefit
had I never been?
Met a woman who never had our children?
Would it have made a difference
that I never spoke a million words?
Never prayed,
never discovered
if I was the offspring of a wayward angel
or a monster?
Or that my dreams
would have all come true,
and I found the imaginal friend
I loved as a child.
Would it have been a good thing
never to have been born?
Never to have bored anyone?
And been in love
as many days as I lived?
The book The House of the World has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and is now available on Amazon.