On Newborn Baby Cries

When you've gone to term in pregnancy and didn't hear your baby's cry, it does something to your soul when you hear other babies cry... ❤️

New life emerging

Is there a more beautiful sound

Gasping, drawing that first breath

A tiny babe's voice is found

Knife to my heart

Sound of a newborn's cry

Sweetness contradicted

In the pain of why

Haunted

By silence and stillness

Soul-piercing, heart-wrenching

Like a perpetual illness

Her perfect heart stopped beating

Catapulting me into this world

A world of forever silence

Dreams for her life unfurled

Her new life emerged

Somehow already having ended

A grieving mother emerged

Previous self apprehended

Silence somehow screams

Resounding through the years

Reminder of life that slipped away

Echoing silent tears