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Truly lost

2022 June 8th

All these years
I thought ‘barren’
meant of the womb —
but now my body
has threatened me
with menopause
and I realize it
means of the heart.

—Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags body, emotions, forties, grief, loss, melancholy, midlife, motherhood, perimenopause, poems, regret, self, womanhood
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