Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BIRTH, by LOIS PALCHES


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First Line: Todays are mothers bound to being pregnant
Last Line: And build a world and men secure from terror?
Subject(s): Birth; Pregnancy; Child Birth; Midwifery


Todays are mothers bound to being pregnant.
They always have Tomorrows within their wombs
Before the Yesterdays have reached their tombs.
A new day waits, an infant quickly regnant.
No midwife, snared by necromantic vision,
Should be attendant, hear its newborn cry,
As ignorance might throw the birth awry.
The time requires a scientist's precision.

Tomorrow -- when it comes, will it be blind?
Will it be crippled when it need be strong?
Will it be sadly pale its whole life long?
Or will it have a vision that will find
The secret base of all its forbears' error,
And build a world and men secure from terror?





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