Ectopic Pregnancy

There are things known and unknown,
Between them there are, they say, doors.
And while I stand and wait
Before one such door
Between the one that exists
And the one who could not be born,
I realize how vulnerable human beings are:
Even the unborn can kill them.

Translation: Esma Hadžiselimović

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