Child or No Child

Baby

Indecision, tolling away,
Superman looking at a rock of kryptonite,

The diamond in my pocket,
At a plush restaurant in town.

The forever after, the promise,
I possess. A vintage wine,

And the cork that I spilled open
Inside of her little crack.

The conclusion that tantalizes,
The two lines on a pink strip.

The power of wine,
To give fate a full hangover,

When fatum tunnels through
A dark tunnel to the other side.

How beautiful it must be
To be sterile, to have no fear

Of the aftermath. The planetarium,
Time is; the long vigil,

Between effervescence, spilling out.
And life, stepping out,

And the biological spaceship,

pregnancy is.

Published by Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Dr Dilantha Gunawardana graduated from the University of Melbourne, as a molecular biologist, and moonlights as a poet. He currently serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Botany, University of Sri Jayewardenepura. Dilantha lives in a chimeric universe of science and poetry. Dilantha’s poems have been accepted for publication /published in HeartWood Literary Magazine, Canary Literary Magazine, Boston Accent, Forage, Kitaab, Eastlit, American Journal of Poetry, Zingara Poetry Review, The Wagon and Ravens Perch, among others. Dilantha too has two anthologies of poetry, 'Kite Dreams' (2016) and 'Driftwood' (2017), both brought to the readership by Sarasavi Publishers, and is working on his third poetry collection (The Many Constellations of Home). Dilantha’s pet areas of teaching and research, include, Nitrogen Fixation, RNA biology, Phytoremediation, Agricultural Biology, and Bioethics & Biosafety. Dilantha blogs at – https://meandererworld.wordpress.com/ -, where he has nearly 2000 poems. View all posts by Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)