By-leman: fraternal twins

The stranger of two close connections:
The spawn of two eggs and the second place sperm
Wiggling down the canal, too late for the win
But just in time for the show.
A birth with complications,
Meaning two babies, one couple
A fully-developed family right at birth
And two little wrinkled creatures
Mewling together in the bassinet bought for one
Like puppies snuggling to their bitch.

Once upon a time that second prize
Might be considered the spawn of Satan
And, who knows, perhaps this one or that one
will show the same proclivities
Or the cloven feet, or a billy goat's laugh
They might develop so differently until they've grown
Fair and dark countenances
The good and bad seeds
Come to fruition together
The sins and virtues of their parents come to roost
But sleeping in the baby blue blanket together,
Two little brothers,
Who's to say which angel is not?

Just a passing distinction
For neighbors on a fence
Or a difference of opinion
Between removed kin.
There is so much growing still to do.