I Have Lived In Your Face Poem by Jean Valentine

I Have Lived In Your Face



I have lived in your face.
Have I been you?
Your mother?
giving you birth —
this pain whenever I say
goodbye to thee —
up to now I always
wanted it but not this

Jean Valentine
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: birth,giving,goodbye
poem poems birth Goodbye Giving
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