Literal Meaning of Brook’s “The Mother” You will never forget that you killed your baby. You remember the child that you did not give life too. You remember the clump of fetuses that may or may not have had hair, the fetuses that would not grow up to be singers or workers. You will never mistreat these children since you have already taken their lives. You will never keep these children calm, be able to bribe them with gifts, or break them from sucking a thumb since they are dead. You will never get to adore these children since they are gone. The author is guilty, and can hear the cries of her unborn children in her consciousness. She feels pain after the children have been aborted. If her children would have been alive she would have calmed them by breastfeeding. She tells her children if she has sinned by taking their luck, their lives, births, names, tears, and games to forgive her. For she had an abortion, but she did …show more content…
This poem describes in detail the pain and guilt a mother faces after having an abortion. Not only mothers in general, but the author herself. You will think constantly of what your children would have looked like, or what they would have grown up to be if you would have not had an abortion. You will regret not being able to mother them and soothe them as they cried for you. Your mind will leave you hallucinating while the guilt builds up inside you and you hear your passed away children calling out to you. You will never fill their tummies with the milk your own body produced for them. You have taken these children’s life’s as well as their names, tears, and games that they will never play. You will ask for forgiveness as you did not want to kill them, but you could not have them. You will have love for your children. You will love everything about your born, but dead baby. Yet you will never get this child back, forcing yourself to live with the guilt of taking their