My Stolen Lullabies

A Poem

Maggie Bowyer

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Photo by Ksenia Makagonova on Unsplash

Trigger warning: infant loss and infertility

The real heartache
Comes in fleeting moments.

Your mom mentioning
Holding onto a baby book
For us one day.

A surrogacy subplot
Appearing out of the blue
On my new TV show.

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Maggie Bowyer

Freelance writer. UNGODLY, WHEN I BLEED: POEMS ABOUT ENDOMETRIOSIS and more