I'm bi-racial. My father is Creole and my mother is a Cajun. I was born and raised in southern Louisiana, although I now live in California. Growing up I was aware that power existed in my family. I had relatives on both sides of my family who were talked about in hushed voices, people said to be able to commune with spirits and cause good or ill fortune to befall other people. The power was said to be in our blood line. My mother was one of those said to be able to do things. Don't get on her bad side, I heard people say. You'll regret it if you do. And I had a great aunt on my father's side who looked ancient and exuded an aura of pure evil. No one wanted anything to do with her. We'd sometimes see her at the cemetery digging with a spoon and collecting dirt (and other things) in a little box. When we'd meet by accident, your blood would just run as cold as ice water as long as she was in your presence. And before she would visit our home, my parents would go over it with a fine tooth comb making sure no one's hair or nail clippings were laying around.
I never put too much thought into it all. I figured it was just more of my parents backwoods mumbo jumbo. I was a 21st century man. I wasn't about to buy into to any of it. But five years ago I fell in love. And I fell hard. Perhaps with the wrong girl, because she had a problem with commitment (and I knew she did). I was devastated when I found out she was pregnant with another guy's baby. We broke up and I told her in a moment of anguish and anger that she'd never have another man's child so long as she lived because of the pain she caused me.
Now my mother always warned me to watch my tongue. That there was great power in our words simply because of who our family were. I should have listened.
My ex miscarried that first baby, and in the years since a second child was delivered dead. Strangled by its own umbilical cord less than two weeks before it's delivery date. At the start of this year (2012) she became pregnant for the third time. Again, she lost the child early on. This time she contacted me and begged me to remove whatever thing I had placed on her. She can't take the losses anymore.
I never intended this. I never meant to take innocent life just because she hurt me.