The Day of my Birth

Paula Dotson Frew
1 min readFeb 17, 2017

On the day of my arrival,

On the day of my birth,

My parents loved me

As they never would

Again.

On that frigid evening,

On the evening of my birth,

My parents loved me

For being a blue-eyed

Red mass of loud

Wailing.

On that frigid March evening,

On the frigid March evening of my birth,

My parents loved me

And never saw I would become

A blue-eyed, angry millstone

Lashed about their

Necks.

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Paula Dotson Frew

I love to write and self-published my first book of poetry last year, a book of Haiku this year, and a book of short stories later this year!