Parents' Poems

Sarah's Poems

Sarah and I met at MISS.
Sarah's poems are dedicated to Oralee and Julian,
her children lost through miscarriage.

When I lost you
I screamed,
I cried,
I died a little inside.

I wanted to tear out my heart
Before I fell apart.
After all
I was not supposed to feel
So much pain,
To grieve
Over someone so tiny,
Unborn.

Yet my heart still aches
For you are
A mystery,
A hope,
An enigma,
That shall never be.

BY: Sarah

Unanswered Questions

Would you have been blond,
like your daddy?
Or a true brunette,
like your mommy?

Would your eyes have been blue
Like your grandmother's?
Or chocolate brown
Like you grandfather's?

Would you have been
Long and tall?
Perhaps instead
Short and small?

Could you have been
A reader, a writer?
Or a pilot, an athlete,
A pacifist, a fighter?

Would you have liked chocolate
Or vanilla ice cream?
Maybe strawberry,
Or something in between?

The answers, sadly,
I will never know.
Because my angel child
Will never grow.

She is gone forever
Her life a tiny spark,
Her short life and death
Tore me apart.

BY: Sarah

Pause

I pause, holding my breath,
my ears hear the word miscarriage
but my mind refuses to believe it.

I pause, waiting for the doctor,
to speak again, to say something,
anything else except that word.

I pause, feeling the pains
deep inside me, pains that
tear my baby from me.

I pause, staring at my husband
in shock and disbelief,
as our child slips away.

BY: Sarah

You are listening to the Humming Chorus
from Madame Butterfly, by Puccini.

Kangaroo by Animation Factory

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