Let them float, please,
Two hundred seventy days:
They have so much ahead of them.
Don't choke or stifle,
Don't cut them off before their usefulness
Has reached its peak.
After all, we will need them
Later when we go to useless war
And need martyrs to die in our place.
Author notes
Enjoy, and thanks!
- Giovanni 
Written July 8th, 2004
In a list
A contest entry
- Goss' Socially Conservative Poetry Contest by Goss98.
300 points, ended July 11, 2004, 11 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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Oh the irony! To be aborted and die or to be born and die in a pointless war. Abortion is well up in the news because of those new scans they did showing babies "walking" in the womb at 12 weeks... How horrifying though for all those poor women who have previously had abortions later than that
You have previously read an abortion poem by me so I won't rattle on too much about my opinions
This was so fantastically put in such a short poem - for that I applaud you good sir!
Take care
Hayles x x x -
Awesome
WOW! I love how you make me think. I myself do believe a baby is a baby at conception. And if we are going to fight for their rights we need not just stop there. I cannot believe how you have my mind a racing. That is what I love about your poetry....Thank you so much, Leslie -
Who's Richard?
- Giovanni
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excellent
How profoundly disturbing. A pro-life plea that bites the hand that feeds it....so to speak. I always disliked that misnomer - ProLife - anyway. I am of the generation that came of sexual age just prior to the onset of the effects of Rowe/Wade....and I remeber girls who bled to death after going to some butcher, and orphanages in every large town - stuffed with unwanted babies, who died for lack of enough caretakers to just hold them, and teenage suicides and lives ruined by a society that condemned them for their "mistakes". Ooops. Got on my bandwagon again, didn't I?
As to the point you make - which is, I think, that we should be at least equally concerned in the quality of the lives to which our young people have access as to their prenatal survival. If we aren't willing to safe-guard their existence after their birth, why put up such a stink about it beforehand? Anyway, that's my take on your excellently written poem. Thanks for sharing your wonderful point of view, Richard. You always make me stop and think about things from another angle.
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Hmm very interesting write. I have to agree though, reminded me of when my cousin went to useless war. Made me think a bit as well as it took me more than one read to figure out what you were talking about Nice detail I noticed the 2nd time around, also.
Crystal -
Hymen to that hun exactly.. let them eat cake eh' ?????
~GILL~xxx
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