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Written, November 30, 2024/ Human Written
For the International Flash Poetry Blog Challenge (3) — Oxymoron
Sponsor, Mark Toney, Judged 12/04/2024

Mention on blog as one of the selected poems.

It was many years ago when I was young, 16 years old and I was expecting a baby. My parents were horrified, I was frightend, grandma was full of love. I ended up going to gran and gramps farm so I could be hidden away from my family and the neighbours. I was well cared for, the baby grew within, and I was brought to the hospital to deliver him. A lady came to my room to talk. She told me about the adoption details and left papers for my parents to sign. I really had no say in the matter. They brought the baby to me, but realizing their mistake took him from my arms, but I never forgot his face. After that I got on with my life. It was not until my parents were dead and gone and the cemetery plot became mine that I asked for the names of people buried there. A lady was listing the names and then said, baby boy. BABY BOY, my mind screamed. I asked the date, it was the date my baby was born. So, he was not adopted all those years ago but died. So,it was the open secret in my family. He was the hidden secret, the missing piece to the puzzle of me. I was never told. How many times could they have told me over the years ? the day was breezy when he was engraved in stone a secret no more

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Mark Toney

Date: 12/4/2024 2:33:00 PM

Thank you for supporting my Flash Poetry Challenge, Constance. Your poem was randomly chosen to feature in my 'Results' blog, which is now up and running. I’m so sorry for your devastating loss. The fact that you are such a warm, kind, and considerate person is a testimony to your courage, strength, and character.

Constance La France
Date: 12/5/2024 3:53:00 AM

Mark, thank you for these Flash Challenges and for selecting my poem, It was devastating to find out about the baby, you know I even tried finding him over the years and they said nothing, but I had to move on, forgive, not for them but for me, blessings, Constance

Unseeking Seeker

Date: 12/1/2024 6:40:00 AM

Devastatingly tragic and painfully traumatic to the extreme degree.

Constance La France
Date: 12/3/2024 3:41:00 AM

Seeker, thank you for the commet, yes it was all those things, but I had to forgive my parents, gran and gramps, and others for to not, would only hurt me forever, blessings, Constance

James Peranteau

Date: 11/30/2024 4:18:00 PM

whut, did you not know; the power is with your Heavenly Father, ask, he will gift you with the elixir uv calm, for the wait of yours He knows, may be too great, of the reunite with them and thee ')

Constance La France
Date: 12/3/2024 3:42:00 AM

James, thank you for your kind words, blessings, Constance

Darlene De Beaulieu

Date: 11/30/2024 3:01:00 PM

Hello Constance, you should have been told about the baby boy. Did you name him? This should not have been kept from you. You had the right to know. Friendship & Love, /Darlene/

Darlene De Beaulieu
Date: 12/3/2024 8:57:00 AM

Hello Constance, They should have told you. You had a right to know. At lest you know it was a boy. Frienship & love, /Darlene/

Constance La France
Date: 12/3/2024 3:46:00 AM

Darlene, they should have told me and I will never find out why they did not. The engraving is simple, Baby Boy, Son of Constance, and date, blessings Constance

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 11/30/2024 11:48:00 AM

- It was truly an remorseless secret, Constance - I hope it's not a poem of truth - hugs

Constance La France
Date: 12/3/2024 3:47:00 AM

Anne-Lise thank you for the comment, sadly this is a poem of truth, hugs, Constance