Tuesday, April 21, 2015

She Was A Mother Too

The thing growing in her

She did not understand

She watched the pregnant women

In the waiting room

She wanted to push them over

The window, the stairs

Each and everyone of them, Wiping out

That conceit from their face

That's some reason to be happy about

Instead of joy

Its tiny hands clawed at her, Twisting

Cold sweat, she started on her bed

She looked at the slump next to her, Dead

To her panting and growing fear, Lost

In his smug bliss of rubber of holes

She remembered staring at the surgical lights

Wide open eyes

The blinding lights did not hurt

as much as

When they emptied her

She broke into a run on her way out

Shivered despite the warm sunrays

She threw up nausea on the street

A nausea at her different colour

At not being a hero

At him who thinks it's her problem, not his

Nausea, she tattooed on her skin

She will never be rid of

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