Warrior Wombs

Warrior Wombs (for Sandy and the loss of our first grandson) By Joyce Teed 2/8/17 Warrior Wombs Every woman Has an untold story A secret Untold Or unseen Her story Includes Silent sorrows Wounds with no words Winding through the untold History of all women Empty wombs Miscarriages Mistimed pregnancies Unwanted babies Wanted babies wished for babies babies without a heartbeat Nature’s way Of weeding out The mistakes A blessing perhaps Women wear these truths of nature Doubting themselves Shoring themselves up Alone Reminding us Of the tenuousness of life And the Tender disappointments Awaiting us around each curve of life Bodily hazards And then there is our hearts Breaking For our loss Yet shoring up to bring in another life Or not We all don’t get the same luck Or burden But together we stand Sisters in sorrow Crying for the unborn Unspoken lives That we have all welcomed and mourned. Tough love Was never harder And now Some righteous men demand A funeral for a fetus As if that would heal the wound As if it would not punish more harshly And more publically Our hurts Our disappointments Our wounds We know how to heal ourselves. We embrace our loses We never forget We empathize with other sisters’ Conditions We do not judge We stand together And wail.