Be your Own Author

[Jennifer, Owner/Moderator]

Im putting a space for those of us who would like to write short stories or other interesting "reads" to share. If you want to write something longer, please send me a message privately and we can discuss opening a thread for you to write your own short/long novel :). This is just for fun, but who knows, where dreaming may lead!

[Jennifer, Owner/Moderator]

This is a poem I had published (copyrighted in 2002)in the "Roomful of Starlight" edition which is part of the "Under a Quicksilver Moon" by the International Library of Poetry.

My poem "Open Arms" is on page 163 in the second column published under my maiden name Jennifer Marie Rivard.

This poem was written in 2002 after I lost a pregnancy in the start of my second trimester. At the time it was devastating, so I wrote "Open Arms", to comfort myself, and have something I could remember that beautiful soul by. Since then I have recently lost a pregnancy in Feb. 2009 and I went back to read this poem, and it again comforted me. I hope it comforts all the other mothers-to-be who lose a precious soul before you've even held them, but after you've already fallen in love with them.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Squire


Open Arms
Dedicated To my Unborn Child

"When I heard the news, I swelled up with tears.
It won't be long 'til my sweet angel is here.
But little did I know that time would never come.
My angel was gone before his life had even begun.
It hurts to breathe and cry and think.
I felt your life was unjustly taken from me.
How could this happen? I couldn't make it right.
And the tears streamed down, I choked a cry.
I loved you, and it hurt to say goodbye.
But the thought of you that made it okay,
When no one else could ease my pain.
Is that I know you're still here,
In my heart and smiling down with open arms."

Jennifer Marie Rivard (copyrighted 2002) (ISBN # 0-7951-5074-1)

Visit my goodreads page and find this poem to vote for it! Thanks!

[Jess]

Very touching, Jen :)

[Jennifer, Owner/Moderator]

Thanks Jessica, at the time I had a hard time accepting that after almost four months of being pregnant, that the life that I hadn't even known was so important to me. Noone else understood, especially the father... it literally tore our relationship apart. Soon after I began speaking to a long-time male friend of mine... who little did I know, would become my current husband of eight years. Also after three months of "courting" he proposed, and I found out I was pregnant.

SO in the long run, if I had not lost that pregnancy, I would have:
1. Never ditched that guy and married my husband.
2. Never been pregnant with my oldest daughter Taylor, because I would have just been ready to give birth to the other soul I was pregnant with.

Now I am sad still to lose something so precious, but in the end, I gained two more precious things, that I wouldn't change for the world. Sometimes life's lessons, happen for reasons unknown. Blessings come in many forms, even sometimes a horrible loss.