enjoy this Linda M. Crate writing
in the free 2016 PDF file chapbook: If Tomorrow
Never Comes
(click on the front cover image or the
title text to download the free PDF file)
a mother’s worry
Linda M. Crate
to bury a child
must be
awful,
but to know your
life-giving
womb was a place of
burial is a terrible
feeling;
too—
i know i must forgive myself,
but i don’t know how;
all i can think of
were the anxieties of mine so steep and heavy
that likely brought about your demise—
i’m sorry
even if that is not enough
apology
to cover the cost of your loss
i know i will think of you always
because mother’s always worry of their children
when they’re not with them.
