‘The Cruelest Month’

By Lynn Ockersz

For the Isle’s Girl-Child,

October has emerged,

‘The Cruelest Month’,

For, dozens of them,

In ‘unwanted pregnancies’,

Have been trapped,

During the fateful month,

In the absence of mothers,

Slaving for dollars faraway,

Leaving open hearth and home,

To men riven with thwarted drives,

But even on this tragic front,

Relief cannot easily come,

For, maintenance case files,

Are rising in dusty mounds,

Within bodies lumbering under,

A delayed justice swollen cloud.