"One Small Jar"

 (Author's note: I wrote this nearly a year ago. Sometimes putting memories into words helps ease the pain, though it is doubtful that the pain will ever truly be gone until I breathe my last.)

One Small Jar

By J. S. Bailey

"Conception came out," he says

(conception? no, no, you're wrong)

then puts it in a jar and leaves.

A jar so small

and lifeless like the tomb it is.

i want to see i want to see my baby

(Why would you want to?)

"Sure," she says

then picks the jar off the counter

like it's nothing

And shows me.

But I cannot see

There's a label in the way

i cannot see!

And just as quickly the jar is gone.

Taken away

Forever.

I never saw her

(Or was it him? I cannot know.)

Oh, Crystal, that gem of my heart,

Where have they taken you?

The flesh may perish

But when a warm breeze rustles the treetops

And the sun peeks its rays through the clouds

I know you are there.

Written March 29, 2011