Late Mother's Day Tribute 🌹

You grew with me

I felt your kicks

I heard the beat of your heart

The first 5 months

I laid in bed

You made eating very hard

You tumbled at night

And slept in the day

As I pictured your delicate face

Your nose, your teeth, your eyes and mouth

I yearned each week to embrace

I watched my womb

Roll around and around

For what?

I could not know

You stretched me wide,

And curved my back

Yes, we both did grow

When it was time

For you to come

I felt as if I'd pop

After all contractions

Right after you came

I felt your heartbeat stop

The room was quiet

The nurse stood still

I had barely the strength to cry

The pain in my soul

Watching you lay so still

Made me want to die

There I saw the face that hid

And kicked me in the night

The one who made me miss my food so long

When months of time flew by

You looked like me

Sharp little nose

It got so hard for me to breathe

The child I carried, was there but gone

I found too hard to believe

There's evidence you existed

Oh my child

Deep within my bones in grooves

I did carry you, oh my child

I have stretch marks just for proof

You live within the clouds of heaven

I think of you when the rain drops

I hold my womb and remember the proof

Of a time that'll never be lost

jAy

-Happy belated Mother's day to every mother; whether your child is living, or has passed on, you carried them just the same.