Best Poems Written by Shayla Marie

A Mother in the Shape of an Ewe

A mother sheep lays down to feed
       She is in the spotlight
       The heat burns her eyes, Her time has come
The tyranny of motherhood consumes her
     Unsolicited echoes of her once unbound soul
     Her life is now theirs, an inevitable symptom
Mindlessly latching what once was her own
Her heart became theirs, bleeding it dry

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