Cheryl wrote this and it made me weep. Perhaps because it is too close to home, but it felt like it needed shared.
pray peace
peace does not always come in the shape of a baby
in a season that abounds with fertile miracles
pray peace for those for whom every breathless, wondrous mention
of babies born
will bring only unspeakable [...]
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Ok so it’s a day late but yesterday was the festival of the Annunciation. Worth a mention I think.
Nothing will ease the pain to come
Though now she sits in ecstasy
And lets it have its way with her.
The angel’s shadow in the room
Is lightly lifted as if he
Had never terrified her there.
The furniture again returns
To its [...]
