Discarded Brilliance
She was a brilliant girl
Who left the world in her wake
With the possibilities of her life
And was told,
"You'll be the next…"
Always with the name of
A great dreamer tacked at the end.
She was an anxious girl
Who hurried to the doctor
Praying that her body was not as fertile as her mind,
And was told,
"Congratulations," ---
The irony of this phrase
Never hitting the assistant who delivered the news.
She was a wan girl
Who hid her growing problem inside
Until it was too late,
And was told,
"Abortion is murder."
So many times , until her ears were numb,
And she accepted it, screaming with pain that she did not deserve.
She is a weary woman
Who left school at sixteen,
Becoming a mother to a child of poverty and regret
Who will be told one day,
"Congratulations," and
Will continue the cycle
Understanding too late that she is dead as well.
The world is deprived of its dreamer.
[I don't know that this is very good, but it's what I think. When pro-lifers argue about the next Mozart, Einstein, or Manet whom we are losing, do they ever factor the mother into this equation? So many girls' lives are destroyed by babies they are too young to bear and care for, and to deny them freedom to overcome this is, in my opinion, sexist and of a time that should be forgotten, a time in which women were nothing if not mothers.]