It began as a whisper,
a trickle.
Like raindrops in April
running down her leg.
It's time
her body told her.
Small steps,
baby steps at first...
easing the mind,
for her body knew of their history.
Approach gently,
with caution,
because
transformation was coming.
The waves appeared
as tides under moonlight.
In harmony
with the sway of her hips.
She was rocking and breathing,
and most importantly
listening.
Listening to her legs,
we will support you
Listening to her hands,
we will hold you
Listening to her womb,
you can trust me
Listening to her heart
you are ready
Her body had told her things before
in a different life
in a different way
and she hadn't always listened
But on this day,
her body and her mind
searched for each other
in the dark.
Calmly sifting through things that didn't belong.
Like fear
Like doubt
They had longed to be reunited in this way,
in the quiet,
before the storm.
Night turned to dawn
and under cloud cover at daybreak,
they coalesced with a compromise.
One last order from the mind,
and her body would
take it from there.
So she made the call
to embrace
the beautiful madness
of birth
break my fore-waters
The raindrops became a rainstorm.
The fluid stained,
as if those things in the darkness
were finally released.
Thunder and lightning within her,
she had to surrender now,
and trust,
and relinquish the control
that she had always thought she needed.
Her body knew it had this chance
to prove to her
it knew exactly what it was doing
It brought her to the very edge,
a place she knew existed,
the brink of her mind,
where her thoughts
bounded by doubt
used to plague her.
She had been there
many times.
And her body knew the power
that lived there.
It whispered to her,
through the wildness
Only this time you will fly
And then her son,
cradled by her body,
treasured by her mind,
emerged gently from the storm.
And just like that,
the clouds departed.
The rubble that was left,
already being pieced back together.
Building a mother,
from the fragments,
of a warrior.
And she didn't have to think about it
because her body had her,
it had always had her.
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