Abortion

[Guest guest]

To a child awaiting abortion

Here risked in an opal world

rocked by your beginnings

veiled by dreams adrift

in amniotic tears unshed

you bow that frail and throbbing

eggshell head

held and by a net of wondrous blood

yet fed

blind in these unspoken waters

of an ever-virgin certain womb

you wait and clutch

with dolphin fingers

like all of us

in hope and dread

a twisted fleshrope lifeline

to a tomb

and still not dead.

a.o.howell

[Guest guest]

Here is a poem I wrote years ago. The orig title was: To a Grandchild

awaiting an Abortion -

I still feel that the decision shld be made prayerfully by the mother. In the

case above, the decision was made by the father who objected to raising

another man's child! By chance, she saw the baby, as she was alone wh it was

delivered. The mother went into a clinical depression n had to be hospitalized,

so

great was her sense of guilt. . They divorced n I believe she remarried

happily n has 2 grown children -

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To a child awaiting abortion

Here risked in an opal world

rocked by your beginnings

veiled by dreams adrift

in amniotic tears unshed

you bow that frail and throbbing

eggshell head

held and by a net of wondrous blood

yet fed

blind in these unspoken waters

of an ever-virgin certain womb

you wait and clutch

with dolphin fingers

like all of us

in hope and dread

a twisted fleshrope lifeline

to a tomb

and still not dead.

a.o.howell