With what maternal feelings <br />do I link your other siblings <br />who suckled this same breast <br />but now other arms found rest? <br /> <br />To bring joy to homes famished <br />my wet bosom you are banished <br />but you will remain in my mind <br />I pray good foster may you find <br /> <br />in the Underground Railroad days <br />when sad family ties parted rays <br />passages of uncertainties dimmed <br />this same stubborn hope beamed <br /> <br />how deep is my love in maternity <br />this swap to connect in paternity? <br />doubt not my deep maternal instinct <br />in the need of material turned extinct <br /> <br />to nurture your sisters who may starve <br />farewell, a new niche you must carve <br />if in selflessness I may now fall short <br />virtue out of necessity I take as fort.<br /><br />Dela Bobobee<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/surrogate-mother-and-child/
