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3/21/2018

Due Date

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by Heather Carnaghan

All of the broken promises
of this beautiful
and awful date

are heavy in a place in my heart
where, now exists only stolen hope.


Who I was
and who you would have been
died that day and left me
with all of the parts of motherhood
that the drug of a newborn’s smell subdues.

How cruel it seems
that I also have this love
that is so deep
that I will take all of these awful things
if they are all I am meant to have of you.


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  • Our Story
    • Charlotte's Journey
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    • Poetry
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    • For the Mother
    • For the Father/Partner
    • For the sibling
    • For the Grandparent
    • For Caregivers & Medical Staff
    • How to support a grieving friend
  • Memorial Planning
    • Components
    • Readings
    • Music
    • Program Templates
    • Other Ways to Remember your baby
    • Financial Assistance
  • Book Club
  • TAG
    • Weekend of Kindness
    • "Big Kindness" Projects
    • Acts of Kindness
  • Wrapped in Love Project
    • Project Wish List
    • Resources for Sewists
    • Project Gallery
    • Donate a Dress
    • Volunteer to Sew
  • Etsy Shop