Take Your Hands Off My Belly

Something about the way 

he asked me the question 

assumed I had a child 

and I did not like it.

His assumption which seemed to come into knowing

I must have planted many seeds 

in my lifetime 

most of which I could not stay 

long enough to water.

Does this mean all of a sudden 

that I am not a mother? Because,

just because I did not let myself 

groom trees. 

Who can accuse me

except mother nature 

who bears my grief,

equally.