This poem is in honor of my very first baby, my first and only natural pregnancy.

ELLE

The first in our family, exciting and new

Natural and fleeting, your heart not even beating

You set up your home, first time not alone

Unaware our time was fleeting, your heart not even beating

Your existence a secret, until you were gone

Three weeks fleeting, your heart not even beating

The day you were lost, was the first day I knew

Natural and fleeting, your heart not even beating

A mother I was, a short gift from above

Unaware our time was fleeting, your heart not even beating

A sad revelation, pregnant without knowing

Three weeks fleeting, your heart not even beating.

Now only me, I continue this quest

My heart beating for two, alone in my chest.