Hindsight

Hindsight JD Rhode As I laid in the hospital bed dying And I have come to terms with that I heard, in the next room, a mother’s cries The baby she just delivered was not breathing The doctors have said they couldn’t fix me-too many things wrong I had no family to worry about me So I could only imagine what that mother was going through I heard once that if somebody dies, a new life can exist I saw nothing left for me; even if I lived this day, it would be tubes Pills Treatments Until the next time That is no life, so, I said, “God, if I am to die and go to you now so this child can live Than let it be so.” As I laid in the hospital bed dying, I felt no pain but heard two noises: The droning flat line of my machine and a baby’s first cry… Years later and looking down from Heaven, I thought about that day My biggest sacrifice and triumph in one However, I saw that baby, now a man One of the most infamous serial killers in all of History Would I have made the same choice if I knew what I really helped let loose upon the world? I guess that’s why they say, “Hindsight’s always 20/20.”