Me and My Placenta

A Poem from Imaginaria

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Me and my Placenta

By Steven S Behram, MD

I was born with a constant companion,

A friend, protector, and guardian,

Melding together in the darkness of the womb

Birthing together to the light of a new world.

Unremembered were these facts,

Lost to the sea of years.

Indisputable were these truths,

For now I had my baby to rear.

As I watched my wife birth my beautiful son,

It came back to me, what to me had been done.

First was the crowning, And the moaning, And the pain.

Then out came my boy,

As if everything was sane.

The nurses rushed to tend to this little prince,

And what came out next has me wondering ever since.

How we cherish the child And celebrate his existence

But how we've come to deny

The placenta’s evil co-existence.

For the meaning of life became clear to me then,

How we suffer and linger

In this thing we call life.

For what is a baby

When all is said and done?

But a way for one placenta

To make a second one.