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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• Youth and Love poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
• Twilight poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
• Translated from Geibel poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
• To Vernon Lee poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
• To E. poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
• To Death poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
• To Clementina Black poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
• The Village Garden poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
• The Two Terrors poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
• The Sick Man and the Nightingale poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
• The Sequel to a Reminiscence poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
• The Promise of Sleep poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
• The Piano-Organ poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
• The Old Poet poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
• The Old House poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
• The Lost Friend poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
• The Last Judgment poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
• The First Extra poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
• The End of the Day poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy
• The Dream poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry by Amy Levy

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