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One's Own Body
By Cindy Duhe
Child inside
kicking and batting her hopes
and dreams
while nobody knows, but she.
Stretch marks hide
under the line
of a dress
that hangs loosely
to the skin inside.
Boyfriend became a foe
when at home
she showed him her belly
now alone, she stays,
with child.
Poor family
burdened by debts
she regrets the act
that must be taken.
Those oppose her anonymous face
outside the clinic
the place that can conceal
her crime
by turning back the hands
of time
to the day that she was normal.
Swept under the rug,
her kicking and screaming voice
inside
that once cried at the thought
but has now done the unthinkable.
Rallies support and reject
some in sympathy, others in disgust
some claiming "It's her body to do with
what she feels"
that is,
until she grows too ill
to change the mess
that didn't die with the child,
but festered all the years
that the life would have lived.
View some of Cindy's artwork
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