On snail sex

Why do it this way?

In the open, in danger,

out of the protection, they carry.

Male and female, are they both.

They could reproduce, by themselves.

This, then the choice, 
They make, not.

Then the race is on,

to share the sperm,

and not the egg.

Adam was once like them,

male and female,

until Eve was removed,

to benefit them.

Now it seems we like Adam,

and the snails seek union, too.

To share the most, intimate of acts.

In utter darkness, and nakedness.

To simulate the act by one's self,

does not fully satisfy.

We like Adam, and Eve.

Seek union, again

This then, together, anew.

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.