A MOTHER'S PRAYER
Be well, my child
I leave my heart
And a single button blue
Never will I be complete
Until I return for you
Life is cruel and I must go
There is no other way
God, hear my prayer, my abject plea
To return to my child one day
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Tuesday Poetics and Sarah presents a challenge using the what3words site, and has given us a list of 3 words that will lead us to a place in London. I chose mass.humid.aspect which led me to the Foundling Museum, established as a charity for children in danger of abandonment. Among its collections is a collection of objects left by mothers with their babies in hopes of identifying them when they were able to return at some future date. I cannot fathom the grief represented by that collection of objects.
Submitted to dVerse October 13, 2020
how immortaly sad that such places existed ... you portrayed the mother's plea well
ReplyDeleteA heartrending prayer. So sorrowful such realities exist in this world, where a mother is forced to leave her child.
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DeleteWhat a tragic tale your words tell: I can't imagine anything more heartbreaking.
ReplyDeleteLovely connection with the place.
ReplyDeleteA stunning, yet heart-wrenching poem.
ReplyDeleteApart...yet hearts connected by grief, prayer, and a blue button.
ReplyDeleteThis made me shiver. Mothers did indeed leave tokens for their children, hoping they would return for them. I can't imagine what it must have felt like.
ReplyDeleteSo very very sad... to know that somewhere in the world is a child you never will know. I can just imagine how the mothers would hope for the return of a child.
ReplyDeleteemotionally stirring without being too sentimental. I feel the mourning the mother is going through as she would leave such a simple item as a button behind with her precious baby.
ReplyDeleteThis is beautifully poignant, Bev!
ReplyDeleteSuch a lovely prayer Bev. Love this one.
ReplyDeleteSo poignant. I can imagine this mother and how sad she must have been.
ReplyDeleteSuch sorrow, beautifully written.
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