Stillborn Happy Birthday

I hold you

My baby girl

In my arms

 

You’re so beautiful I could cry

 

Your eyes are closed

Veined eyelids barred to the world

I stroke them with my pinkie

You’re so tiny I can’t believe you’re real

 

Your little fingers are curled into fists

I can tell you’re going to be a fighter

 

Your tiny shell lips are parted

And I run my finger over them

I can’t stop touching your face

 

You’re so beautiful

And I can’t believe you’re real

 

Happy birthday

Sweetest daughter

Happy birthday to you

 

You’re so beautiful I could cry

 

 

I rock you in my arms

And I don’t even realise I’m screaming

Till the nurses come to take you away

 

They tear your fragile body

From my arms

As they hold me down

Try to

Calm me down

 

But they can’t

 

 

I held you in my arms

My baby girl

 

You were so beautiful I cried

 

And your little fingers

Were curled into fists

Even though for you

The fight was over

 

 

Now the nurses are leaving

They’ve given me a drug

To make me sleep

But for now I’m left

My screams dying to whimpers

 

And as I lay alone

My solitude screams of failure

 

 

I held you

My baby girl

My tiny daughter

In my arms

 

And you were so beautiful

I couldn’t believe you were real

 

Reviews

[Poeticpiers]

brilliant in conception You bring that moment to life.I hope against hope it was poetic license but I suspect not

[J.E. Stroud]

That's so sad. You've really captured the emotion perfectly-I love it.

[EMP]

:'( amazing

[Lyra H]

Oh wow... that is so beautiful. I can feel the pain and sorrow just from the words..wow

[Legion]

:( Such sadness and angst. Tears abound. :( again.