midwife's pocket

midwife’s pocket

applause to a woman such as yourself swathes of children

and hearts both broken and mended and all

between, hearts foryou

to keep; your succor

to those who ask

is diligent, work as important as what

any solider does-

but all those buming

tears going

to the same lonely

place: constant effort given with no avail,

every perfectly timed step bringing you closer to a scaffold of your own by Ellery Beck, age 14