Labor Pains

I am sick today,

sick in my body,

eyes wide open, silent,

I lie on the bed of childbirth.

Why do I, so used to the nearness of death,

to pain and blood and screaming,

now uncontrollably tremble with dread?

A nice young doctor tried to comfort me,

and talked about the joy of giving birth.

Since I know better than he about this matter,

what good purpose can his prattle serve?

Knowledge is not reality.

Experience belongs to the past.

Let those who lack immediacy be silent.

Let observers be content to observe.

I am all alone,

totally, utterly, entirely on my own,

gnawing my lips, holding my body rigid,

waiting on inexorable fate.

There is only one truth.

I shall give birth to a child,

truth driving outward from my inwardness.

Neither good nor bad; real, no sham about it.

With the first labor pains,

suddenly the sun goes pale.

The indifferent world goes strangely calm.

I am alone.

It is alone I am.

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• Roar Shack poem – Alice Fulton by Poetry In English
• Physically Hearted by Poetry In English
• On The Conduct Of The World Seeking Beauty Against Government poem – Allen Ginsberg by Poetry In English
• Not my poem by Poetry In English
• My Sad Self poem – Allen Ginsberg by Poetry In English
• Mugging (I) poem – Allen Ginsberg by Poetry In English
• Millions of Us poem – Alice Notley by Poetry In English
• Meaning of silence-ness. by Poetry In English
• Making The Lion For All It’s Got — A Ballad poem – Allen Ginsberg by Poetry In English
• Kraj Majales (King Of May) poem – Allen Ginsberg by Poetry In English
• Kraj Majales (King Of May) poem – Allen Ginsberg by Poetry In English
• It Would poem – Alice Notley by Poetry In English
• Industrial Lace poem – Alice Fulton by Poetry In English
• I the People poem – Alice Notley by Poetry In English
• Human Tendency by Poetry In English
• Gift poem – Alice Notley by Poetry In English
• Feast of the Eyes by Poetry In English
• City of My Childhood by Poetry In English
• Cezanne’s Ports poem – Allen Ginsberg by Poetry In English
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