Mourning Regret
Abandoned baby on the doorstep,
a post-partum
depression delivery
Pitter-patter sound of feet running away
Binocular scissors
cut the umbilical cord emotionally
Driving in the morning rain
to nowhere in particular ...
moving aimlessly thru the downpour
Drowned by sad thoughts
of her baby crying in another woman’s arms
Growing up biologically unaware,
laughing and playing with foster friends
Embracing adopted parents who care,
and were always there ...
From the first unannounced ring of the bell
A bundled surprise
wrapped in a warm blanket mystery
The mourning after regret
of a mother’s blessed painful delivery
For her abrogated responsibility misdeed,
she gets a cursed awakening daily received
So she takes two pills each misty-eye morning
to numb the womb pain
And to sedate the maternal guilt,
she takes two more
in the dying twilight mourning evening
Mourning to mourning ... perpetual night,
dark dawning awareness which so terrifies
A moon miscarriage of tears
gives the stillborn hope
dry root forgiveness no growth inside
Phantom wails
from a sheet-covered, empty bassinet
Ghostly infant lips
pressed to her barren heart,
which beats hollow
Twin bosom of sour regret ...
a bitter aftertaste
of a mother’s mourning love
left abandoned
on a stranger’s doorstep
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2018
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