in depth look at poem: This poem was written from the viewpoint of a really young baby that lives inside his mother's womb. The story ends with him bieng shot with poison and dies. After that He goes to heaven and asks "why did my mommy kill me?"


me

I'm beginning to grow.
I can hear sounds of life
when I'm not sleeping.
I can feel movement.
I don't know where I am.
All I know is I'm alive.

Every day the space I'm in keeps
getting smaller and smaller.
maybe I'm just getting bigger.
I don't know where I am.
All I know is that I can move and breathe.

Now I'm just waking up
from my nap and I feel wierd.
it's like a tingling in my body.
I don't know what it is,
All I know is it makes my body ache.

with all my might I wrestle against it,
with all my voice I scream out in agony.
but no one hears my cry.
I don't know what's going on.
All I know is that I won't make it.

now that I'm dead I'm in heaven.
I asked God "why did my mommy kill me?
He replied "she didn't want you."
I don't know why she didn't want me,
All I know is that I've lost my chance to live.

-Jonathan Johnston


© Copyright 1997 Jonathan E. Johnston


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