On being a single parent

How many times,

had he wished,
she were a single parent,

when first, they met.

She had been offered that first baby

their babies older brother

He would have been a young child,

When first, they met.

Not ready, she was,

No husband and no prospects.

So the baby became a gift, to another.

So, on the weekends,
they stole the other babies
niece and nephew, they were,

and a day care center,

she began.

This then while they waited,

for their  babies.

Still he felt a longing,

and a desire,  that a single parent,
she had been, when first they met.