<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=527705" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>broken and Numb.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">She knows these are her <br>Last moments with her still <br>Born babe knows they'll take <br>The babe away and leave <br>Her arms empty like the <br>Cradle at home standing <br>In the nursery especially <br>Prepared with the wallpaper <br>Chosen and the new carpets <br>Laid and she hugs the babe <br>Close to her breasts tries to <br>Bring warmth to the lifeless <br>Bundle wrapped in a white <br>Blanket and we'll be back in <br>A while the nurse had said <br>and she left the small room <br>and the door clicked shut <br>With a small click and she <br>Walks the room rocking <br>The babe feeling the weight <br>Sensing her child there her <br>Flesh and blood and she <br>Wants to breathe life into <br>The tiny lungs want to see <br>Movement wants there to <br>Be a miracle to shock them <br>To say look there is life you <br>Must have been mistaken <br>But no matter how hard she <br>Breathes or rocks the babe <br>No life comes no movement <br>No miracle of miracles and <br>Out of the window as she passes <br>The trees have that winter <br>Bareness the sky the greyness <br>Of cannon smoke and a little <br>Way off a woman laughs a <br>Vacuum machine is turned <br>On and a baby cries but not <br>Hers for hers is silent unmoving <br>Becoming cold and stiff and <br>She kisses the pale cheek the <br>Forehead seeks out the small <br>Uncrutching hands the tiny <br>Curved fingers and holding <br>The babe up tight against her <br>She doesn't want the separation <br>To come doesn't want the nurse <br>To take away the babe in her <br>Arms but she knows the minutes <br>Tick away and the nurse will <br>Come and the empty arms will <br>Leave her broken and numb.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terry+Collett">Terry Collett</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=527705" data-title="Broken and Numb. de Terry Collett" data-description="She knows these are her Last moments with her still Born babe knows they'll take The babe away and leave Her arms empty like the Cradle at home standing In the nursery especially Prepared with the wallpaper Chosen and the new carpets Laid..."></div> </div> </div>

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