Abandoned

Born into a wet world
harsh
motherless world
wrapped in an old hessian sack
gasp for air
fill my lungs
dark—
so dark
hurled into the air—
is this life
I wait
small heart
gallops
small sound
I whimper
yet do not know what is happening
to me—
mother, where are you
what happened
taken suddenly from you
I cry
for me
and for all those like me
hessian sack
closing in
I have no air left to breathe
I am tired
to close my eyes
forever in this world I’ve yet to see
destiny is this
eternal sleep
then darkness