<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=402225" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Mother</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Abortions will not let you forget.<br>You remember the children you got that you did not get,<br>The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair,<br>The singers and workers that never handled the air.<br>You will never neglect or beat<br>Them, or silence or buy with a sweet.<br>You will never wind up the sucking-thumb<br>Or scuttle off ghosts that come.<br>You will never leave them, controlling your luscious sigh,<br>Return for a snack of them, with gobbling mother-eye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed<br> children.<br>I have contracted. I have eased<br>My dim dears at the breasts they could never suck.<br>I have said, Sweets, if I sinned, if I seized<br>Your luck<br>And your lives from your unfinished reach,<br>If I stole your births and your names,<br>Your straight baby tears and your games,<br>Your stilted or lovely loves, your tumults, your marriages, aches,<br> and your deaths,<br>If I poisoned the beginnings of your breaths,<br>Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate.<br>Though why should I whine,<br>Whine that the crime was other than mine?--<br>Since anyhow you are dead.<br>Or rather, or instead,<br>You were never made.<br>But that too, I am afraid,<br>Is faulty: oh, what shall I say, how is the truth to be said?<br>You were born, you had body, you died.<br>It is just that you never giggled or planned or cried.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Believe me, I loved you all.<br>Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you<br>All.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gwendolyn+Brooks">Gwendolyn Brooks</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=402225" data-title="The Mother de Gwendolyn Brooks" data-description="Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get, The damp small pulps with a little or with no hair, The singers and workers that never handled the air. You will never neglect or beat Them, or silence or b..."></div> </div> </div>

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