POET'S PEN: WILLIAMSJI MAVELI writes on KHUTSO MORGAN's Poem, titled " A LETTER FROM AN ABORTED CHILD "

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• POET'S PEN: WILLIAMSJI MAVELI
• writes on KHUTSO MORGAN  Poem, titled
• "   A LETTER FROM AN ABORTED CHILD   "

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• A LETTER FROM AN ABORTED CHILD
• BY
• KHUTSO MORGAN

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Dear Mum

I have decided to talk to you, to let you know my
feelings. I want to know why you did it. My story
is short. I have stayed inside you for only three
months. I was very comfortable and warm. I felt
really protected. I know you are a special person
because I ate the food you ate. I longed for the
day I would see your face. Nine months was a
long time to wait, but I was determined to wait. I
had to be patient. One day I heard you converse
with a man
about me, and at some stage you quarreled. The
man then offered you some money to get rid of
me. I was happy and prayed that this meant that
I would at least see you, the only person
that I knew in the world: I was wrong. I had
almost forgotten the issues until I felt something
sharp pierce my tiny ear. I jerked silently and in
pain, and asked you to protect me. Seconds later
the object came, fiercer than
before. My tiny was cut up, starting from the
ears then
arms and legs. It was an agonizing
experience, my head was then cut off and I died.
It took me a whole hour to die, a whole hour for
an innocent three months human being to be
murdered. I remember the whole
incidence vividly and I keep asking myself, what I
did to deserve
that cruel death? Why me? Why did you do it to
me? And why was I not given a chance to live? I
know you are having a lot of nightmares. You
remain guilty for
the beastly act. Please explain to your God why
you committed the
heinous act.
Personally I have forgiven you
though I never lived to see your face. My journey
to
back to my creator was safe and I arrived safely.
I was given a red carpet welcome by an angel. I
am in fact, without bitterness.
I still love you mum.

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My applause to KHUTSO MORGAN  for sharing such a wonderful letter, though this is not written as a real poem, the theme, the content and the presentation is excellent, I love it. The prose poem is veru smooth in its flow in the form of a letter from an aborted child to the Mother.   In every abortion a child dies—in an premature stage of development before birth.  The child’s death is planned and carried out with the presumed consent of the mother  or with or without the consent of the father. The negative aftermath of abortion, largely the result of unresolved grief and guilt, is most profound for the mother of the aborted child and cascades over the father of the child, the child’s siblings and extended family, abortion providers and those who counseled and funded the abortion. 

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