It should be as simple as
you will be a girl.
The poetry of your birth
should be nothing more
than your biology.
Anything more than that -
and there is much more than that -
is mystery or tragedy.
What theology we know
of the distinction between us
daughter
is derived from the dregs of translated legend,
is the juiced fruit of stories
even those nearest them could hardly fathom.
You may have sinned first
but we both know who sinned worst.