In Memory of “Baby Boy A”
Iced hard eyes encased by crystal ice shells,
Eyeless groveling in a dark heathen world,
Melt it must; the melt to mull of worldly spells.
Burdened, mean boys do shame, her fears this quells.
High, their lustful looks, she’s hardened and burled,
Iced hard eyes encased by crystal ice shells.
Worldly girls predicted “a life of hells!”
“It’s a baby boy!” the sonogram purled,
Melt it must; the melt to mull of worldly spells.
“Who’d love me now? A prisoner in cells
Of new obligations, a life imperiled!”
Iced hard eyes encased by crystal ice shells.
“You’re not going to keep it!” her mother yells,
Imprisoned to the car, tires screeched and whirled,
Melt it must; the melt to mull of worldly spells.
For life’s greatest joy, all glory and bells,
Now laid on a table, twisted and curled.
Iced hard eyes encased by crystal ice shells.
Melt it must; the melt to mull of worldly spells.
- Gary Edward Geraci
Warning graphic! Google: “Gosnell the movie, Baby Boy A”
ReplyDeleteThe poem “Worldly Spells” follows the French traditional form know as Villanelle, a poetic style well suited for poems of loss. My poem is inspired by the recently released movie, a true story, “Gosnell: The Trial of Americas Biggest Serial Killer” and on the real life character introduced in the movie, a human being without a voice: “Baby Boy A”. Thankfully, we never see “Baby Boy A” in the film, there’s probably just this one existing photo of him, but he is, never-the-less, the character with the biggest voice of all in this film. Whether pro-life or “pro-choice” Americans are growing weary of late term abortions as Steven Greydanus of Decent Films writes in his article “Abortion, the sanctity of life, and movies”. The other nameless characters and events depicted in my poem are fictional and invented by me - only, events like these still do occur in reality; way too many times.