I had just started to bleed, age thirteen,
when that  blinding light appeared
announcing my body will be taken over,
used as an incubator
for new life, a divine being,
long- awaited.

I know this makes me special
but I can’t help but wish
someone else were chosen.
I’m just an ordinary girl
looking forward to an ordinary life.
Does it seem quite fair
to be used in this way,
my body colonized
for purposes not my own?