The Little Babe

That night, she would not have slept,
When her little babe, in her womb, wept,
Her lap dried, and her full breasts sagged;
Her nerves pained and blood boiled.
I wondered, wrote nothing but was perplexed
Were my words bruised or my pen vexed?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2015

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