As all of you have guessed by now, I am not a writer. It was FibroidRelief.org that requested my content contribution to their blog to increase the readership of their extremely important site. Essentially, there are no guidelines, in fact, they had to define ( for me) just what a blog was!! Recently I have met my comfort zone and so I feel the need to kick it up a notch, and test my (and their) limits. In the hopes of garnering some of YOUR stories, I am creating the Uterus Monologues! What? I will write the initial musings of uterus talk, but then, I want each of YOU to dig deep (so-to-speak) and offer a fantastic uterus story for all of us to read. Come on ladies, you know that we love our uterus…and it is time to share that exuberance with the WORLD. Soooo, here is the first uterus monologue in (hopefully) a litany of more to come—from YOU…..
uterus
uterus
tucked neatly away
and softly
out of sight
you’re always
right there, even
despite your
hostesses plight
hey, remember your
once a month
red curtain
appearance
you showed up
on time
and left on
quick clearance
uterus
uterus
you housed
both kids so
motherly n gently
time to appear
you pushed them out
with no charge
for the rently
we both
rolled along
and went
on our way
with deep
respect to each
day after day
then bam!
like a bump
in the night
a fibroid
infiltrated you
on the lower right
i took you
to the doctor
to have a
look-see
then lickety-split
here’s what she
told me
you have a small
fibroid embedded
within
we’ll rip out that
bad uterus
oh..my head
began to spin
i just sat in
my car and
proceeded to ponder
i had grown to
love you much
fonder ‘n fonder
to just rip you away
for a
benign condition
will not happen
so long as I’m
still in commission
eight doctors
and as many
years later
i was angry and frustrated
as a just
awakened gator
each and every
of those
white-coated docs
all wished my uterus
to be ripped from
its box
day after day
and year after year
hearing the same same same
i was so
fraughtwith fear
as time passed
that fibroid
grew ‘n grew ‘n grew
a 6 month size
like a volcano i
almost blew
oh but i fought
so hard and
held my ground
and i was able
to keep you
because of focus-ultrasound
a blessing in
technology
caught up to
my troubles
and with both
joy and glee
i now play
good tennis doubles
the lesson in my
own uterus story
fight for whats right
and ye shall receive
that end glory
so carry on sisters
with holding
on tight
put up your dukes
and fight the
good fight
your uterus will
thank you and
you will thank it
for hanging on
valiantlyknowing
a true perfect fit


Love your celebration of your woman-hood! Actually, I have a fibroid. My skills as a poet are no match for yours so I’m begging off of that. But I’m lucky — very, very small, and has not gotten larger for years. I am told that it will disappear after menopause. Shockingly, I’m still getting those red curtain appearances at the ripe old age of 56, and relatively regularly. I’m now paying a lot of attention, though, and spreading the word about the org and the blog. . . .
to post your uterus stories (prose or poetry or somewhere inbetween) please email to jfaulkner@fibroidrelief.org jade will then post it for you….pleeeeez write something, it will be fun and the beginning of something important xxxxxxxxxwendyxxxxxxx