A Mother's Mistake
Why don't you love me the foetus cries
As it's mother signs on the dotted line
A child who's life has only begun
Cut short by a signature; a symbolic gun
Suspended in her womb, oblivious to it's fate
As surgical steel probes and scrapes
A glint in the blackness as the surgeon strikes home
Silent screams; the ripping of flesh and bone
An unborn child torn to shreds
A drop of lifeless blood seeps onto her bed
Little unloved souls forgotten in the surgeon's bin
Tiny broken bodies, spilling over the brim
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Submitted on May 02, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | XXAA XXXX XXXX |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 494 |
| Words | 93 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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