Infants Remembered In Silence (IRIS) - Poems

Dead Instead

(Daniels, 1988)

I bought birth announcements,
I used death announcements.

I bought dresses and dolls,
I used casket and plot.

I wanted congratulations and baby gifts,
I go sympathy cards and flowers.

I wanted a beautiful new life,
I go ugly death.

I wanted a new beginning,
I got and old ending.

I wanted mornings filled with joy,
I got mornings filled with mourning.

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