Unwed Mother

I didn’t pop a pill, I didn’t annihilate a fetus

I am not, a cold-blooded murderer

That schemed the splatter of blood

Before the splatter of water

I am the keeper of what is freely given

Fate’s endowment, a stranger’s inheritance, god’s intervention

A legacy of one act of love, in one fateful hour

A flower that bloomed in me

Suckling every drop of vitality within me

A parasite that I grew to love and not loathe

A creature semi�"lit by the flames of my genes

And darkened by the shadow of my mortality

I was a lover for one night, a mother for an eternity

Me, the bit** who spread her legs to welcome love

And me, the she-wolf who will spread her legs to welcome life

A perennial woman with many hued aliases

Lover of one gender but not of one soul

Mother to one fetus semi-orphaned by fate

Woman of passion and compassion

Bearer of two breasts, bridges between blood and milk, feeding man and child

And apically a mortal in every dimension

Bearer of shame and guilt between two ears

Keeper of life between two hips

Reservoir of unspoken love between two breasts

The dream within the nightmare

The perfection within the imperfection

Love unbridged by an umbilical cord

And preserved in a tender lingering gaze

A miracle schemed by fate and unveiled by time

Love that might not move mountains

But can move any residue of hate

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