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Open Poetry #36

Abortion's Untold Truths

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

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Glen Hope, PA USA

0 posted 2005-07-13 10:17 AM

Abortion’s Untold Truths (An Acrostic)

Alone, white sterile drapes
Bunched around my shaking legs
Opened in cold stainless steel stirrups painted
Red with blood, I cry thinking how
The doctor said I’d feel no pain.
I never realized you’d have fingers and toes
Or that I’d already see my features in your tiny face.
No one told me you’d be perfectly formed.
Someone should have told me.

They said it “was not a life”, that you “were not a baby” and I
Respected their professional words as truth
Until the moment I saw their lies in your stone-still form.
Ten years have passed and yet I see
Hands, tiny and motionless. Forgive me, I never knew.
Someone should have told me.

This poem is not meant to stir up debate. I will say I've never had an abortion, but I have known many women who have had their lives forever changed by this one decision. I find it a shame in a world where we can send men and women into space and land them on another planet that we can not counsel women properly on abortion before hand. I curse the clinics that convince women that they are doing this in their best interests without informing them of the physical and, even more, the psychological aspects their decision will have on them for many years to come.

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