January

 What will January bring?

What will your heart decide?

So many hopes

So much longing

For a daughter

For a fiancè

For a brother

For an innocent and lovely unborn child

For a crime-stricken unborn mother

Unveiled

And undressed

Shamed - isolated and guilt-ridden

For a marriage

Long awaited

For mad love - almost forgotten

What will January bring?

A pregnant belly

With an unborn child

And an unbutchered fetus

A clot that is welcomed

To grow

And be fed

In nausea

And nutrition

With Vitamins without fear

A boy

A girl

Someone wanted

Someone loved

And cared for

Not to be be pushed out

too soon

Out of fear

Out of uncertainty

Unmurdered

None of that

Maybe January will be kind

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