fox@daemen.UUCP (Merlin) (05/04/85)
This poem, I know it should be in net.poems but read it first, is
not my own, I hereby take no credit for writing it. The poem was written
by one Gwendolyn Brooks, she wrote it and deserves all credit. Please forgive
me for any typo's
I simply brought it to all of you.
Any mail directly back to me MUST be here before 5/9(Thursday), for I go
home on that day.
Dave Fox
otherwise known as Merlin
UUCP : {decvax, dual, rocksanne, watmath, rocksvax} !sunybcs!daemen!fox
The Mother
Aborations will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not get.
The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair,
The singers and workers that never handled the air.
You will never neglect or beat
Them, or silence or but with a sweet.
You will never wind up the sucking thumb
Or scuttle off ghosts that come.
You will never leave them, controlling your luscious sigh,
Return for a snack of them with gobbling mother-eye.
I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed childern.
I have contracted. I have eased
My dim dears at the breast they could never suck.
I have said, Sweets, if I sinned, if I seized
Your luck
And your lives from your unfinished reach,
If I stole your births and your names,
Your straight baby tears and your games,
Your stilted or lovely loves, your tumults, your marriages, aches and your
Deaths
If I poisoned the beginnings of your breaths,
Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate.
Though why should I whine,
Whine that the crime was other than mine?
Since anyhow you are dead.
Or rather, or instead,
You were never made.
But that too, I am afraid
Is faulty Oh what shall I say, how is the truth to be said?
You were born, You had body, You died.
It is just that you never giggled or planned or tried.
Believe me, I Loved you all.
Believe me, I know you, though faintly, and I Loved, I Loved you
All.
---Gwendolyn Brooks
My only comment is what would be if your mother had an abortion
just before you were born.
David Fox
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