'Twas the night before pregnancy test

'Twas the night before pregnancy test, and all through the home,

medications were readied, including good ol’ progesterone.   

Pills were lined up on the kitchen table with care,

In hopes that they supported a tiny pregnancy in there.

 

The patients then snuggled all warm in their bed

With visions of parenthood swimming through their head

Papa said to mama “should we sneak a test tonight”?

Mamma said “are you crazy? I can’t stand the fright”

 

Resigned to wait just a few hours more,

Papa fell asleep, you could tell from the snore

Mama lie awake, hoping and dreaming

When the nesting instinct struck and she started some cleaning

 

Between scrubbing, wiping and rearranging the kitchen again,

A peculiar sound grabbed mamma’s attention

A flutter, a flapping, wings beating could it be?

Astonished she peered into the yard at a tree

 

Perched in the branches comfortable and serene

A stork looked back at mamma, what could this mean?

A joke or a jest? “is someone messing with me?”

Mamma rubbed her eyes and blinked, yet could not change what she see

 

And then things got stranger, as if the night weren't weird enough

The stork lifted a small package wrapped in a blanketed tuft

For what seemed a long time, mamma starred at that bird

Because storks should bring babies, at least that’s what she heard

 

The stork just looked back, and though it did not speak,

Mamma could hear a message quieter than a squeak

“You want this so bad, on your face I can read it

Tomorrow will be a good day, go to sleep, you will to need it!"

 

With that the bird took flight and mamma rushed back to bed

Amazingly she was asleep before the pillow hit her head

The next morning she awoke, was it a dream, could she know?

But she didn't have time to think, cause papa was in the car and ready to go

 

Out of the driveway, onto the freeway with a swoosh,

Careful the bumps! Jeez this progesterone hurts my tush!

Into the parking lot and up to the third floor by memory

To the bathroom with you, we need some pee pee

 

The nurse takes the urine, pulls 4 drops to test

Mamma’s barely holding it together, papa’s a total mess

One pink line appears, then slowly at first

Another emerges, “it is positive” says the nurse

 

Initially denial, and then come the tears

Can this really be happening after so many years?

But it can and it is, you will be a mother

You will get there one day, one way or another