A mother's changing body

Allisheen Syster 2003 (Western Cape)



A woman preparing for motherhood

As she stands in the mirror looking at her growing stomach, she feels pride.

Pride in knowing that her wonderful body has been created so carefully and beautifully to bear children.

It is a blessing.

Giving life to a whole new (small) human being.

For 9 months, she gets to experience the bliss feeling of a tiny human being forming inside her.

But also in these months her body changes.

She gets bigger and rounder

Swollen feet and hands.

She tries to take these changes with positivity because “women's body ought to change during pregnancy", they say.

She tries to surpass those feelings of feeling down

She eats up the guilty feelings because she's blessed to be able to bear children.

So today, as she looks into the mirror again, she only looks at her bulging bump and avoid looking further up or down.

About this poem

It is about the process of which the body goes through during pregnancy and the feelings that goes with it . Women has been told to accept the way their body changes during pregnancy but it is never as easy as people often make it to be .

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Written on February 25, 2023

Submitted by allisheens on February 25, 2023

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X X A B B C X C X X D A D
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 859
Words 172
Stanzas 13
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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