Death by drowning
Death by car
Death by strangling
Death by war
Death by daybreak
Death by noon
Death by the man
Who will break in soon
Body’s back but
Brain is not
Days a blood bathed
Movie plot
Nights no better
Nights are gray
How much horror
Can one bargain away
Gentle, gentle, baby’s so sweet
How many meals can one make to eat
How many weeks and how many wives
Fear for their families, fear for their lives
Dinner’s cold but the children sleep
Mother’s lost in a laundry heap
Mother’s tangled in her veil of tears
The tortured mind is a mess of gears
Lullaby lullaby baby trusts me
Hand so steady though weak the knee
Hushabye darling it’s no surprise
Dazzle me a smile for my watery eyes
Sisters now, am I alone
Call me, call me, on the phone
Call me, call me, by my name
We are all the living same
Life by water
Life by light
Life by books
Life by foresight
Life by baby’s sleeping head
Life by clean sheets on my bed
Life by suffering with true heart
When your mind be pulled apart
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If you’ve got postpartum depression in the form of intrusive thoughts, you’re not alone, and you’re not likely to actually harm your child. Start here, and talk to someone as soon as you can.
