Best Poems Written by Joyce Teed

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.

Copyright © Joyce Teed | Year Posted 2017