October 15th is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day. Around the world, families commemorate the day by lighting a candle at 7pm local time to create a “wave of light” around the globe. In honor of today and our son Asa, I (Jo) am sharing a poem I wrote in the months after Asa was born. It’s patterned after the hymn O Sacred Head Now Wounded.
O Sacred Womb, now broken
Betrayed by death’s untimely claim.
Your walls of warmth and comfort
Transformed to space of pain.
O speak and tell me how
His life did come to be
A tale of pain and sorrow,
A path of suffering.
O sacred tomb, now empty
Redeemed through suffering
Your walls of death and darkness
Have lost their final sting.
O speak and tell me how
His death did come to be
A tale of hope in sorrow
A seed of life in me.
In Written Form 
Beautiful poem. Thank you for sharing.
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