Late in the day came the news

A child unborn

A tiny life like smoke in the wind

Gone forever

She did her best to hide the pain and suffering inside

Little by little it consumed

'Till darkness was all that was

Cocooned

Changed on the inside

This rot

Hidden from view in the carapace

Time passed like falling leaves

Decaying slowly with the earth

All that grows here now

Despair

With resolve she tied up all the ends of a barren life

And drove out into the cold

From the wreckage the body was pulled

She watched as they towed it away

And there she still sits

Waiting for the happiness to start