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When we are in pain, what if we can reassure the struggling woman inside us that she is not alone? A sensitively expressed poem.
Hey! Did I just hear something
Was it you screaming
I am sure to hear that loud scorching heat.
But I see your eyes, they are as cold as that of a dead person
Would you ever let me in your eyes?
I am in search of the voice that haunts me
Why don’t you let me know if it’s you
Did you erect a wall to suppress it?
What have they done to you?
You told me that you wanted to sing but
I see there is no music now in your soul
You said you once danced when stars twinkled but
Why are you now still when lightning strikes?
Can I please ask you to dream like you did?
Can I please ask you to ignore or fight back your hurdles?
Can I please ask you to create the best portrait of yourself?
Can I please ask you to be you?
Would you mind putting your happiness ahead of others?
Would you mind stop fearing threats and start to embrace?
Would you mind defining happiness again?
Would you mind If I help you to preserve you?
Come on darling! If you get rejection,
I will be with you
If you feel shaky, I will wrap around.
I am nothing but you.
You have lighted me
Now its my turn.
Try me
Lets begin afresh…
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Trigger Warning: This deals with severe postpartum depression, and may be triggering for survivors.
Motherhood is considered a beautiful blessing. Being able to create a new life is indeed beautiful and divine. We have seen in movies, advertisements, stories, everywhere… where motherhood is glorified and a mother is considered an epitome of tolerance and sacrifice.
But no one talks about the downside of it. No one talks about the emotional changes a woman experiences while giving birth and after it.
Calling a vaginal birth a 'normal' or 'natural' birth was probably appropriate years ago when Caesarian births were rare, in an emergency.
When I recently read a post on Facebook written by a woman who had a vaginal birth casually refer to her delivery as a natural one, it rankled.
For too long, we have internalized calling vaginal deliveries ‘normal’ or ‘natural’ deliveries as if any other way of childbirth is abnormal. What about only a vaginal birth is natural? Conversely, what about a Caesarian Section is not normal?
When we check on the health of the mother and baby post delivery, why do we enquire intrusively, what kind of delivery they had? “Was it a ‘normal’ delivery?” we ask.