Brooks also says how ac-knowledge the child’s presence hits her filings more deeply “the children you got that you did not get”. In her poem she asserts, “Abortions will not let you forget” even that women decide to “kill the child” this decision “never leaves”. Specifically, in “the mother” poem Gwendolyn Brooks describes all the filling that a woman experiences after having an abortion. It is a heartfelt poem where she talks about how she will not be able to do certain things for the children that she aborted.
She is regretful yet explains that she had no other choice. On the surface, 'The Mother' is a poem about a mother who has experienced a number of abortions and now has remorse.
