[Sabertooth]

Some Friday night poetry...

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[My Favorite Headache]

Very Nice....

[Aquamarine]

When I was a teen-ager I washed the inside windows in a medical building. When I went into this big room with all these beds lined up and the windows painted on the outside for privacy I sensed something very wrong and sad in that room. I learned later that I had been in an abortion clinic. I was not surprised that the doctors had not given life but taken it in that room. I've never forgotten how an empty room can tell so much. That was the saddest place I've ever been.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you for the heads up!

[HiJinx]

Immediately after watching "We Were Soldiers", this was not the post to read.
However, I guess I couldn't not read it, since the ping came from you.
Thanks, and God Bless...

[vikingchick]

bttt

[Victoria Delsoul]

Beautiful poem. Thanks so much.

[Dubya]

Very nice, thanks.

[2Trievers]

Thanks ST ... resplendently poignant NHN ... thanks for sharing.

[Teacup]

As a pregnant unwed teen ager, I was confronted by a college professor and an over zelot social worker to get an abortion. I mean, the social worker would show up at my door step at all hours of the day with her clip board, saying to me, "Just sign here. It doesn't hurt."
I couldn't get these people to leave me alone. So I quit college and went home to my parents. I faced the music and had my baby.
Today, I have 4 beautiful grand babies. I thank the Lord everyday, for them.

[backhoe]

Yes, that poem claws at my heart any time I see it.

My first wife was severely handicapped, and her Doc at that time insisted that merely getting pregnant might kill her; so I had myself "fixed."

There are "worlds within worlds" of that simple sentence- how wrong he was, how when he- who was a Urologist- learned he had bladder cancer ( which he cheerfully treated other people for... ) went home and carefully got in his tub & blew his brains out.....

Just suffice it to say I made my "choice," and now I live with it. My first wife? Twenty years ago yesterday I turned off the respirator that kept her alive after a stroke "blew her brains out" and held her while she died- and it took a long, long time for that tough little body to give up- even ruined, she fought like a tiger to hang on one last minute to life.

And yes, after what seemed like a thousand years in Hell, things got better, I remarried, life went on.... but I still... think back, and wonder what life would have been if I had made different, and better "choices"---

[Da_Shrimp]

Thanks for the ping, Saber, that was a very touching and thought-provoking poem.

The Irish/British comedian Spike Milligan died recently, but as well as being a comedian, he also wrote poetry. here's one he wrote in similar vein, which mercuria posted earlier on the 'Spike' thread:

UNTO US

by Spike Milligan

Somewhere at some time
They committed themselves to me
And so, I was!
Small, but I WAS!
Tiny, in shape
Lusting to live
I hung in my pulsing cave.
Soon they knew of me
My mother --my father.
I had no say in my being
I lived on trust
And love
Tho' I couldn't think
Each part of me was saying
A silent 'Wait for me
I will bring you love!'
I was taken
Blind, naked, defenseless
By the hand of one
Whose good name
Was graven on a brass plate
in Wimpole Street,
and dropped on the sterile floor
of a foot operated plastic waste
bucket.
There was no Queens Counsel
To take my brief.
The cot I might have warmed
Stood in Harrod's shop window.
When my passing was told
My father smiled.
No grief filled my empty space.
My death was celebrated
With tickets to see Danny la Rue
Who was pretending to be a woman
Like my mother was.

[MeekOneGOP]

I'm not real big on poetry, but that is one powerful poem, IMHO. Thanks, guys!. . .

[Nitro]

I wonder how many genius' were lost, sports, musical, political, medical.... and on and on!!

[NCEaglette]

Thanks for the ping Sabertooth!

Beautiful poem Night Hides Not! I wish all those going into the abortion mills would stop just 5 minutes and read this poem.

Congratulations to you and your wife on the birth of your newest pride and joy, Nathan!

[CheneyChick]

Thanks for the ping, Saberkitty. I wish people would think about this before they get so selfish....

[harpseal]

btt

[editor-surveyor]

Thanks for the Ping Sabertooth!