The Soft Touch Of A Nightingale

It is Nurse’s Week, from 05-06-22 through 05-12-22.  

I will be posting some very controversial pieces which, may affect a person, mentally, emotionally, and yes, physically wellbeing.  
 
Along with video snippets of my medical journey along the way, it is still in progress until I sneaker up in June.. and trust me, I cannot wait..  
 
I do hope you take the time to read, and if you are a nurse, in school to become a nurse, or anyone in the medical sector, I humbly bow to your dedication of service to assist the medical community, henceforth, going beyond the duty of compassion and caring with merit and professionalism for with the oath you’ve taken.  
 
I will start the first day with a repost, regarding an element of today’s controversy.  
 
I will add my personal in-depth later on in a more insightful manner.  
 
SKC, interim, DON, APRN  
 
Abortion    
A sensitive word, never to be blown out of proportion    
With all the decisions, the mental choices    
One person facing and hearing mass demonstrations of voices    
This poem came to me    
For all the silent regrets, or a result of a delivered victory    
If this was you, I ask this in general, just what would you do    
 
We glance into each other eyes as we lay    
No time for initial foreplay    
 It’s my first time    
Two souls blending together beyond the call to change their minds    
Sperm greets egg, how do you do    
Ecstasy of gyration flowing between me and you    
Life conceived through explicit moans through and through    
Man tucks his tail between his legs and run    
Now I must look out for me, number one    
I cannot believe he just up and gone    
Left behind, feeling down, and now alone    
The once beautiful melody of my heart has turned to stone    
Weeks later    
Positive home pregnancy test, no need for a calendar translator    
No time machine to go back in time, or a Last Month Menstrual calculator    
 
Unexpected results    
Created within the bed of two consenting adults    
An internal secret now hushed    
A heavy decision falls on me to have this being, or time must be rushed    
No one to hold my hand    
Should I take a stand    
Or call him and demand him to be a man    
Calls unreturned, hang-ups on the other end    
Wow, I just found out he’s now got a new girlfriend    
He’s moved on    
Our melody is now another’s song    
An unwed mother will certainly be shunned upon    
Sense of responsibility reached out with no respond    
Day into weeks    
Refusing to meet    
No voicemails on my cell phone    
This is all so very wrong    
    
Eyes closed in shame for your brewing unethical thoughts    
Catholic religious belief from birth I’ve been taught    
Thy should not kill    
However, does this decision fit the bill    
For me to swallow this hard pill    
A bitter taste to reckon, as a heart stands still    
Of all the nights I surrendered unto him on my own free will    
Life inside patiently awaits    
As you decide its ultimate fate    
Prolife or Prochoice lingering debates    
Does anyone remember Roe versus Wade    
Still the center of a woman’s marching crusade    
Whoever knew    
Dire consequences follows the fool    
    
Time easing into the future for me to decide    
No more mental free rides    
This is your decision, and yours alone    
Nothing in life is ever set in stone    
Will halt this poem in the middle of the fork road here    
For choices and decisions of a personal nature, which sheds a human tear    
On certain issues, I will always turn my deaf ear    
I must give privacy as well as respect    
For that one person this poem has, or anyone this poem, will ever come to affect    
    
As a writer, I will never try to blanket my opinions on anyone; it’s not my creed    
But what I can tell you, I do believe    
Forgiveness to think about, let alone, do,    
Is granted from the Heavenly father; which I will never try to fill His shoes    
Whichever road you have taken it is always your silent decision to choose    
 
1st edition published 10-06-2018- Entitled, Abortion (some very interesting comments were offered worth pondering)