As Gwendolyn Brooks wrote this poem decades ago the messages she Intel 's still touches many women close to the heart, to think that abortions are still so popular but today society has come to accept abortions more than ever when once abortions …show more content…
The narrator also mentions things she will never get to experience with her unborn children, the things she will miss out on as being a mother, not being able to experience the joys of mother hood “You will never wind up the sucking-thumb” and she also speaks about not being able to protect them from there nightmares or something that may frighten them. “Scuttle off ghost that come.” .The poem then changes after the first stance to the first person, the narrator speaking of herself, making it clear that that this is from personal experience.” I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children I have contracted you.” Clearly the choice of abortion continues to haunt her with guilt. The narrator speaks of how her unborn children will never experience the opportunity to be a child, be naughty, get punished, grow up, get married, and have children of their own.
“If I stole your births and your names, your straight baby tears and your games, Your stilled or loves, your marriages, aches, and your deaths, If I poisoned the beginning of your breaths, Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not …show more content…
The narrator then goes on to say “its just that you never giggled or planned or cried” dwelling on the moments she wishes she could have been able to experience but, this is something she will never be able to take back. Lastly, she lets us know just how much she really loved her unborn children and, although they were never birthed she felt like she knew them and they had become a piece of her although she did not know them for long the time they grew in her stomach they also grew in her heart. All and all this poem was to tell a story and make people aware of the struggle that is faced after a woman is to have an abortion, from personal experience we hear the pain and guilt that will be forever remembered and haunt her for the rest of her life . Making it well aware to anyone who has never experienced having to make the decision to have an abortion that it is not any easy decsions and its never just forgotten about after words, it’s something that dangles over your head for the rest of your life. I think the morally of this poem may to be to make people aware but also to not judge