POSSIBILITIES

Creation is fluent
in the art of possibilities.
© Marie Elena Good, 2009

© Marie Elena Good, 2009

A life that’s wanted is a life that’s life.
Unwanted life? Disposable tissue.
So at what point does life become a life?
Unplanned or planned – too often the issue.
The silent scream of babies ripped apart
Is deafening to me – I can’t be still
And not express what grieves my beating heart
While theirs are halted at another’s will.
What right have we to turn a woman’s womb
Into an unplanned baby’s living tomb?
© Marie Elena Good, 2016

15 Weeks (photo courtesy of donum-vitae)
the problem with a
botched abortion
is that the baby
is at the risk of being

Photo by Keith R. Good
Winter streams give life,
Yet how icy are the veins
Through which blood runs cold.