The birth of a child, I’ve always been told it was a joyous occasion. In my youth I would’ve believed that to be so. That naïve notion would die with time.
Upon entrance to this world I was called a bundle of joy. Today I feel as if I’m merely a burden. “I’m proud of the man you’re becoming” Despite being said to me by those claiming to love me most, I know these words to be nothing but lies.
Some would tell me to believe it’s just tempers flaring. I however, sense much more. My siblings and I enter. With her face being the stage a scowl takes the center, too disgusted with the crowd to even wave. I can feel her disdain seep into the deepest crevices of my heart. Bundle of misery seems to describe me more accurately.
She begins to speak; my name takes its usual place right beside the word useless. Someone should’ve told me existing was a crime. Even though I am told it was planned, I know for sure my conception was a whim of lust. Bundle of joy, no, just a mistake.