A/N: This particular poem is written for the Freeverse Frenzie competition on the HPFC forum, poem 21.
Their Tender Little Child
6. Yusei
It was a surprise –
but a welcome one –
when she learnt of what
she carried
in her womb.
He was happy too.
But it was a flurry of panic
that followed afterwards.
Their first child…
what were they to do?
They knew it was a boy at least
and it was amusing enough to watch
a father-to-be struggle with curtains
when he'd spent the last few years
working with things too small to see.
And oh how he fussed about his wife,
to the point where she sent him back to work
in no uncertain terms, then wondered
what to eat…
And the names; one watching them would have laughed
at the names they found,
as different as suns and moons they were
But the one they settled on
was a simple one indeed.
And so Yusei he was:
the planetary particle that ran the world
in his father's lab
and at home.