She was only 15 and addicted to meth,
She’d had a hard life after her parent’s death
When she got pregnant she didn’t even care
She didn’t even think it’d be one more burden to bear
Growing inside her womb everyday,
This little baby already has a rough way,
My arms and legs are smaller than most
My hunger can be heard if you listen real close
If I could then I would be asking “Mommy, please
Eat something for me so that I might be at ease”
I’m hungry and cold and I don’t feel so well
Can’t you quit tossing me about like a ball you’d sell
Premature labor and I am then born
No time for hospitals, no time for scorn,
She left me at the hospital for adoption, you see
Because she knew she couldn’t take care of herself much less me
I’m so skinny, shaky, and my dr. says I’m addicted to meth
I don’t know what that is but he said it could mean death
All I know is I just got here I don’t want to die
So, I lie here and I cry and I cry.
No one to hold me No one to care,
No one wants a little nightmare,
Fed through tubes that sticks in me
Kept in a box of lights so they can see
Maybe someday somehow I’ll get a chance
Maybe somehow someday I’ll get to dance
Maybe sometime I’ll have a son and do right
Maybe someday I’ll find mom doing things light
Author notes
For the babies without voices
#4
A contest entry
- Malevolence- Please read in its entirety by HeavenonEarth.
3750 points, ended February 25, 2008, 26 entries
Bronze trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest - Options [PIF] by Beauty Of Silence.
650 points, ended March 19, 2008, 15 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Comments
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This is a beautiful write, but unfortunately it has nothing to do with animals, in which this contest is about, I'm really sorry but I am going to have to disqualify it.
Sorry, it's a beautiful poem though. -
wow! your last stanzas truely left me breathless! Brilliant job! this is such a sad poem! so much pain in each and every word! I really didn't expect the ending to be as such! Honestly, i thought somehow you'd give up... but when i read the ending, it was just so touching!
This poem almost reduced me to tears! Amazing job! love it so much! Thanks so much for entering my contest! Best wishes!
ps. please put your option in the AN! thanks!
Much love always,
Ranji
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Thank you for your entry into this contest and I must say that after reading this entry you have evoked so much emotion with this poetry. Thank you for penning an entry that gives a voice to the ones that suffer in silence only because no one can hear what their cries are truly about. Bless you for what this will do for others, how you can change a mother who is struggling possibly with something near this that it might just touch their soul/spirit and shift their thoughts or actions to change an outcome to a newborn babes life to a much healthier one. I commend you on this entry and you did it in rhyme with great flow. Thank you.
Bless you for this..
Much Love & respect,
~Joy
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Beautiful!!!
Sad, yet inspiring & hopeful!!!
Loved that it changed from narrative to personification within.
Great flow, rhythm & rhyme...
Well done!!!
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