Poems by Kara Coats

In honor of the event Choose Healing  on June 7th and 8th in Peytonsville, TN (click here for more information) my friend Kara Coats has written two poems.  

If you have abortion in your past and you have felt the affects of regret, guilt, shame, please know there is hope!  

Us

There we were

Sitting in that office

Waiting our turn

Afraid to be there

Afraid to leave

Afraid to make a choice

Afraid not to

Maybe it was pride or selfishness or even

Someone else’s idea

But, for whatever reason

We were there

We went in together

And I came out alone

More alone than I have ever been

That feeling has never left me

Your memory is still with me

And it never leaves my heart

I have even tried to leave it behind

Filling myself with emptiness and lies

And there you are

Quietly rolling down my cheek

I miss you

If I could go back

I would carry you out of there and never leave you!

I would stand up to anyone trying to tell us

What to do and say no!

I would hold you in my arms

And I would keep you safe from harm

And we would be together

And I would wipe away your tears

Kara Coats 2013

He Was a Daddy

Maybe he insisted it be done

Maybe he allowed it to be done

Maybe he tried to stop it from being done

Or maybe he was given no choice and

It was already done

He was a daddy

Maybe he panicked

Maybe he caved

Maybe he stood up and said, “Don’t do this thing!”

Or maybe he didn’t even know til it was

Too late that he was a daddy

What if he could go back and change what happened?

What would he change?

The beginning?

The middle?

The end?

The truth is he can’t change even one small thing

And the truth is one small being did not

Get the chance to make memories on this earth

But he will never forget

He was a daddy

His heart reminds him of what never got to be

His head reminds him of what might have been

But his Heavenly Father reminds him that

Heaven is forever

And he IS a daddy

Kara Coats 2013

One day at a time, one moment at a time, there is always HOPE