Tag: miscarriage

• To My Children Not Yet Born

  

  To my children not yet born;Goodbye.I will think of you,I will dream of you,I will miss you,I will mourn you,I will carry your silkenmemoriesin the furrows of my faceas I cry for you.Goodbye.To my children not yet born;I am sorry.I cannot be your mother,I cannot rock you,I cannot kiss your bruises,I cannot read you stories,I…

  Serena Malcolm

  20 June, 2020

  Grief, Motherhood

  children, death, grief, Infant death, Infertility, loss, love, miscarriage, motherhood, mourning, ode, Still birth, women’s issues

• Can’t you see my happy face?

  

  Can’t you see my happy face? I’m smiling, can’t you see? These are tears of joy, you know, Your blessings gladden me. Can’t you see my happy face? It’s the best news the world, I can’t wait to meet your little one, Whether boy or whether girl. (Can’t you see my empty space? The hole…

  Serena Malcolm

  14 June, 2015

  Grief, Heartbreak

  birth, good news, grief, Happiness, happy face, jealousy, joy, life, loss, love, miscarriage, news, pain, poem, poems, poetry, pregnancy

• Third of Three

  

  I never met you, But I miss you, You don’t exist, But I kiss you in my dreams, I set aside a portion of my heart, Swaddled it in endless love, And engraved it with your name, But you never came to be, And so I miss you. Destined now to grieve eternally, For all…

  Serena Malcolm

  1 June, 2014

  Grief

  dreams, grief, grieving, hurt, life, loss of a child, love, miscarriage, motherhood, mourning, pain, poetry, pregnancy, sadness