New Baby Blues
I rue the day my mom acquired my new baby brother.
I wish that she’d return him and come back with another.
When I first saw him, he was cute and I was rather proud,
but that’s before I knew the fact that he would be so loud.
When he cries, he makes a sort of ear-splitting sharp bleating
all the time Mom’s in the kitchen seeing to the heating
of the bottle used to apportion out his dinner.
You’d think for all the fuss he makes that he was growing thinner,
Yet I swear that day-by-day, to my great disgust
that he’s growing bigger—fatter and more robust!
And when he isn’t sleeping or drinking or deranged,
he is damp or poopie and insisting to be changed.
I think this baby’s broken and I think we need a new one.
I asked if I could go along when they go to view one,
but Mommy says there’s no return because this one is used,
while Daddy uttered not a word—just stood looking amused.
It really isn’t funny, though. In fact, I’m most annoyed
that they have less time for me now that they’re employed
taking care of baby—making sure he’s fed and well
while all this time I’ve been here too, living in baby Hell!
He’s diapered, held and cuddled, sung to and adored
while his older sister sits here feeling bored.
They say that I’ll feel different once he’s more grown up,
but if it were up to me, I’d trade him for a pup!
Prompt words today are proud, heating, apportion, damp and rue.
A new baby takes away all the attention of the parents.
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Luckily I was that baby, although not a boy.
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Cool! 😂
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There are benefits to being the younger!
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many
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Sibling rivalry! Not the usual subject for poetry, but very cute. Reminds me of being 5 and discovering I had a younger sister who was going to share my bedroom! The final insult!
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And how did that go?
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lol the petulance of being upseated as #1 in the family!
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Yeah, my little brother would have been better a pup too!😂
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