As more and more U.S. states pass laws that declare a fetus is a person, it seems appropriate to enunciate what those rules of law really mean.

The Unborn

Few living entities are as vulnerable
You neither cry nor sing
You make no demands;
Your greatest asset is
Your future—
Sometimes bleak
Without food
Or drink
Subject only to what
Is leftover
For sustenance
Yet you must survive.

How else can you be denied
Health care
Or education
Or made to beg for the
Selfish chance to find your
Potential?

Now you will inherit
Nothing not even the wind
All the assets are spoken for
None left over for you
No time for nurturing
Or praising
No liberty.

Accept your place
Live in disgrace
With your preconditions
In the fields
In the factories
Where once there was the
The honored right
To serve others.  

But do not complain
The rule of law is your new master
And now you have the gift of
Servitude
At its beck and call.
But only as long as
You never ask for more
Than your masters
Can find in their
Empty hearts.

Ideals and other pursuits
Of heart and soul
Are only figments of another time
Tried but found lacking
And unworthy of your new
Right to life.