The photo depicts my father Fred Wilson's sculpture "Woe is Me!" in which a mother grieves her stillborn baby. I quoted words from my mother Jessie Wilson's same-titled poem in which she wishes her unborn baby dies. Given that my parents created these works the year I was born, I felt they addressed me when she wrote:

"Forgive me . . . forgive me if I feel no sin, but if you're lost, you'll come again . . ."

Knowing that my mother suffered a miscarriage which landed her in a psychiatric ward five years before my birth, I address her poem.

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