Monday, August 18, 2008

I...

have had an emotional day!! but i finished one of the poems i was working on. i am working on a photo project with it. gotta do something with this pregnant belly while i still have it!

Love, me


as you descend,
i will receive you, uplift you, feed you—
shelter you in this new found womb of my arms,
withholding this world with my right,
drawing you further into my heart with my left...
&, although i am limited by my strength alone,
i draw on the strength of the Great Hands
hands that formed me, 
picked me up in shards when I or the world broke me,
and formed me once again.

yes, i draw on this strength like life's first breath,
and find peace, that this same strength shall be with you,
when i can hold you no more.




I love you, baby!

2 comments:

Audrey said...

wow. just, wow. i'm speechless. a

2115taft said...

oh wow kelly,

i'm glad you stayed pregnant long enough to finish this poem! it's so right and true and rings clearly in every mother who reads it!

amen sister,
~j~