Birth Defect

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It was an empty hospital room

Your heartbeat was the only noise

It was calm, peaceful

Like music


But chaos erupted when you were born

As it always does when you enter a room

They tried to save her

But your mother was long gone

You were the only one to know her precious heartbeat

And all you are is chaos

A loud shrill scream above the peace that we hold so close


Your pounding heart

That sounds nothing like hers

And your chaotic mind

Worse than anyone else's

Why did they save you that night instead?

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A/N: This poem is just a bunch of insecurities I have with being adopted, though it may not feel that way. The last line; "Why did they save you that night instead?" is just me wondering why I was left without my parents by a nursing home. Every life is worth saving, and please don't ever think you weren't worth it or that if it were that type of situation, you weren't worth saving as opposed to someone else. Everyone in this world is worth something to someone

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