Feel What does a baby feel In the womb or newborn Joy and pain are real The debate is torn Torn between alive or what A newborn is alive There is no but It can live and strive What about a fetus In the womb Do you have a treatise Or do you leave the room No regard for science It is living Against your defiance Answers are missing When does the heartbeat Not months but weeks Six weeks like a drumbeat The heart speaks When the heart stops We are declared dead The blood flow drops And life has fled If you are born You are alive with heartbeats But not if you are unborn Who cares if it repeats Then comes your nervous process Developing soon after the heart starts Reflexes begin to progress And pain is its counterpart Yes pain is present In the womb Many will dissent But it is not your gloom or doom Babies move away from the intruder Babies shrink from the abortions tools Babies jerk from the pursuer Babies not understanding the rules How about brain waves The fetus starts around forty days We are on our way to our graves If our brains are not ablaze What is life A heartbeat A nervous system A brain wave I want all three Many will disagree But they are free To argue with me