Accept Me — I'm Childless

Do you have any children?—
I hate this question!
It's inevitable...
people you meet, surveys,
doctors, and hospitals.
This question won't go away.
When you're childless,
it's a pain, heartbreaking to answer
and you got to keep your head up
and your feelings locked inside.
You want to explode and say,
“It's none of your business”
but instead quietly you say no.
No one knows the hurt, the anger,
the pain, the heartbreak you go through
except for the ones who are childless.
Each childless person deals
with it differently.
Then you have to deal with
some cold-hearted ones
who degraded you so low
they say there's something wrong with you
because all womwn had children.
That is bull!
I'm not the only one!
Stop degrading me and the others!Accept Me — I'm Childless
I am not childless by choice
and do not ask me why—
it's none of your business.
It took me years to accept it
still I have my bad days.
I am ME!
Accept me for who I am or
go away and leave me alone!
I know God loves me
just the way I am.
I know my man loves me
just the way I am.
God knows what He was doing
when He made me.
It was in His plans.
Now I can say
I'm childless but not by choice.
I am proud of me.
God chose me to be childless
and it is okay with me.
I am beautiful, worthy, special!
I am me!
It feels good to say these words.

Noreen Ann Snyder