Anchor

A smile upended
Tears of solitude
Raining down my cheeks.
The loss of love
More scary than
Madness or death.
A woman’s pain
Hollow and dark-
Foreboding like childbirth.
The umbilical cord is buried far away.

By Raymond Enisuoh

Jackie Kay
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