1
The Contents
Her uterus is
all she thought of when they said,
‘We’ll evacuate …’
How could she know they also
meant the contents of her heart?
2
The Mitigation
Surely, she’s guilty,
but not only … not mostly.
Doctors and nurses
lied about the life she hid.
Let children choose their curses.
3
The Haunting
Strangely, her sin,
the aborting of her child,
was her salvation.
For the darling little ghost
drove her to Jesus at last.
Andrew Lansdown