Lo!

At the twinkling of my birth,

just mere moments after leaving the birth canal

& still covered in blood & amniotic fluid.

My doctor,

who was lifting me up to show to my mother,

suddenly slipped & stumbled.

I began to plummet toward the earth

Doomed —-

Just a hair’s breadth away from

eternal damnation & Hellfire.

When at the last possible second,

the attending Doula

caught me —

My whole life passed before my eyes.

But I remember thinking,

if I had to do it all over again

I wouldn’t change a thing