A Rainbow on my Birthday

He was the rainbow

after a heartbreaking storm

He was the reality check

8lbs, 5oz, to shatter our norm

He was everything when we didn't even know we cared

He was the "grow the fuck up"

to my sleep-deprived brain unprepared

Suddenly the biggest part of my life it seemed

was the tiniest thing I had ever seen

The love I didn't know was possible

The patience I didn't know I could hold

The happiness, the laughs, the cries

Frustrations, desperation, all came tenfold

Who knew someone so small could cause this and more

I lost it all and gained everything

when a piece of my soul entered this world

He stole every piece of me, in the very best way

and it began with the day he stole my birthday

and yet, he did not steal it, for we share it together

Leaving my womb empty, but remaining bonded forever

On January 6, he came earthside just as I did 27 years ago to the day

A whole new person to join my stride, two Capricorns butting heads--was this fortuitous play?

Or was it planned in the stars, by the universe, or whatever it is above?

For only something of a higher power could know the magnitude of a baby boy's love

Whatever it was, planned or not--I was gifted this treasure

For I needed a rainbow, a reality check, a new outlook where sunshine meets pressure

It's been 8 years since he landed in my arms where he no longer fits

and the years will keep rolling while forever in the back of my heart sits,

On the day my rainbow was born

After a heartbreaking storm

He was the reality check

8lbs, 5oz, to shatter our norm.