She wants both children to be born
not the one child she must choose
Learned doctors only tell you
the scientific parts not how to decide
which of her expected twins shall live
Two babies alive and joined together
in bone and flesh of her blood and
life's tissue are ready to leave her body
during Caesarian birthing one must die
so that the other may have life
The two a girl and a boy have names
so how could she ever make a choice
In her dilemma she sleeps and
dreams that she is there with the One
who centuries ago founded her faith
the Christian Immaculate Birth of
a child whose mother was troubled
Awakening cold startled and afraid
she says aloud and clearly the name of
only one beloved unborn baby child
This touches my heart on a personal level. The choices that I had to make with each of my sons' terminal illnesses. I relied on God to help me through those hurdles. Some may say I did right. Some may say I did wrong. But ... God and me know that I did the best I could. Didn't mean to be so long-winded, but thank you for the beauty and sensitivity of this poem.
God bless you. Kathy
Reviewed by Rafika Anderson (Reader)
Reviewed on February 8, 2008
How Solomonic, this piece. This highly descriptive narrative exposes some of the deepest fears and biases of our nature and the extraordinary challenges we must sometimes confront in life.
What a choice she faces: save one to let the other die. Which one? Funny, was just reading a book about Cheng and Eng, the famed "Siamese" twins - how apropriate! An excellent, heartwrending write, very well penned.
from Bill: The generous reviews of Myrna Badgerow and Lloyd Cedarberg were unintentionally deleted. I cannot retrieve them, and offer apologies to each of these great poets. - Bill
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
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God bless you. Kathy
Be always safe,
Karen
well penned Bill...
John
Peace,
Dan
What a choice she faces: save one to let the other die. Which one? Funny, was just reading a book about Cheng and Eng, the famed "Siamese" twins - how apropriate! An excellent, heartwrending write, very well penned.
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.