BEH BUH
I started to bleed.
Two weeks later than expected.
And for the first time in my life I wasn’t relieved.
I felt devastated.
I still feel devastated.
A potential Octavia
no more.
Why do I feel ashamed to even admit these feelings?
Is the pressure to hide my tears self-imposed?
I weep when I’m alone.
And sometimes silently when I’m not, but nobody is looking.
I don’t know how to grieve someone I never held in my arms.
I have nothing tangible to hold onto…
Just some abstract sense
that my body carried something beyond myself again.
Just a blip.
just my BehBuh.