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Infertility Poem

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callerofcrows

Published: Apr 1, 2011

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I dreamt of an infant
Asleep in my arms
And her eyes would be yours
If they opened.
But she vanished into the morning,
She doesn't exist anywhere
But in my wishful thinking.
My heart aches.
The visions I had of me
Carrying your children
Are washed away
Like the chalk drawings
I know they'll never make.
That beautiful future
Hurts me each time I dream
Because reality's cold
Like the frost that paints my window
When I wake up each dawn.
The promise is there,
And the sunrise is warm,
But it can't melt the ice
Of my infertility.

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