The Mother- Gwendolyn Brooks

"Abortion will not let you forget" the first line of this poem, but yet this statement rendered in my mind throughout the whole poem. Such a strong way to start a poem. A poem which i believe is a daunting memory of the author. I feel the author has gone through this abortion ordeal and has yet found a way to cope or deal with it. I feel this poem is a way for the author to apologize, if not on her behalf then on the behalf of women across the world who faced such a drastic decision as abortion, " Believe that even in my deliberateness i was not deliberate". When the author says "Since anyhow you are dead, OR RATHER, OR INSTEAD you were never made. But that to I am afraid is faulty" that signified guilt, as if she was a criminal a thief in the night. She felt she took something away before it even had the chance to be its own self. However the author stands confused not knowing if shes a murderer or a person taking away something that was never really there to begin with. A feeling i believe many women struggle with. The poem ends with a sense of closure and realizationthe, the authors says " how is the truth to be said , you were born, you had body, you died. Its just that you never giggled, or planed or cried"