This has been such a full week for me with a lot of additional activities besides our usual ones. Yet it is sometimes when I am busiest that my thoughts tend towards the opposite direction: loneliness, quietness, stillness. Hence, Patrick Jennings’ Pic and Word Challenge #153 – Emptiness, hits the spot again! While his lovely words look at outward, mine veered inward. Opposites….
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Empty
My womb is empty
No more sparks of life
Like fireflies on a summer night
A fleeting hope twinkling into sad thought
My womb is empty
Candle wishes extinguished
The birthday banner ripped and askew
Only cone hats left to point fingers at who’s to blame
My womb is empty
An unwanted Frankenstein
Stitched and stapled, stretched and scarred
Lightning bolts of regret
My womb is empty
It can add no more
4 out of 6 is more than statistical chance
Minus its function – a fraction of its worth
My womb is empty
Of sad thoughts
Of blame
Of regret
Of function
Now what will I do with all that space?
©️ iido 2018
your poem is one of deep sadness and longing, you are designed to nurture and love, I feel the weight of your emptiness. “fireflies on a summer night” – this describes the first flutters of that new life, the ones we mothers hold so dear to our hearts, the first feel of life in us. How blessed are we to be given custody of such an amazing gift. I hold you and your feelings close this morning. I light a candle and remember all we have lost and the children we will never bear. Know you are in my thoughts.
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Thank you, Gina! Your words and your presence are such a balm to my soul. ❤️
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you know reading your poetry and your thoughts have been one of the things I really look forward to, its hard to explain like the wisdom is what I need for that one particular day. thank you for your kind words.
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I feel the same way about yours! Just when I need something to ground me or buoy me… there you are! ❤️
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Such sadness in your words. A friend recently lost a grown up son. She wanted me to write about the emptiness she is feeling. I have written it, but not been able to post it. Your words give me courage.
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Please post it – there is healing in having loss be recognized. ❤️
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Thank you so much. Will surely do. 🙏
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So strong. ❤
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Thank you so much!
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There are no words I can say to follow your own. This is stunning – thank you for your bravery and honesty ❤
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Thank you. I appreciate the validation. ❤️
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