Roe v. Wade

You allow us dignity

where we have mined the deepest trenches of our own disgrace.

Let the Princes stand in silence

with their hands lifted to their mouths.

I come for you.

Awe, and contemplation

The regrets of humanity 

and retribution.

What have we loosed?

The unearthing and exaltation.

I long to touch the faces 

of the tiny ones

realeased to heaven.

I love you, I love you.

I am wretched by your pain

by the evil,

knowing and unknowing, alike.

My hands are drawn to my mouth in horror.

I feel you moving in my womb.

I am overcome with terror

at little hands and feet wrenched away.

Going home eternal

All the little ones.