BABY SEVEN BILLION
You are lying there
Not naked
Already swaddled in cloth
You are lying there in a stainless sterilized
Cocoon
You are lying there at the raw edge of a city
Where water and jobs are scarce
You are lying there in the arms of a mother
Who is a Madonna
You are lying there untouched
Because your mother has died
You are lying there with all your limbs
Corresponding to the right number
You are lying there shriveled
By a genetic malfunction
Baby
Baby seven billion
Two of you every second
Have we passed a point of no return?
Tokyo’s thirty-seven million
Lagos’s fifteen
What does my I amount to in this multitude?
But till
Tomorrow
I have all the time to live
Till tomorrow
And now I will be your father
Baby seven billion
I will stand by you
I will do my utmost
With all my weakness
All my madness
I will do my utmost
To bring you a tomorrow
