Remembering your limbs
wet with fluids from my body
slipping against my thighs
your hair plastered to your head
in cornicopias and curls of moisture
leaving wet notes on my chest
your wail only a courtesy
attesting to your life
subsiding into a silence
your pink lips
latching onto my breast
taking in your first meal
in tugs and sighs
your life still reserved
by my body
Still
I long to feel you at my breast
I cannot forget the feeling of your
warmth against my thighs
reminding me that I am so much more
than just sex
even my vagina and
especially my womb
were so perfectly designed
by a 'man' God
For now I taste you
your smell still holding
the residue of your creation by Him
you who was in the presence of God
so much more recently than all of us.
RE: Missy's comment - Sember may remember this too. I'm reminded of a short piece of prose by Gary Young:
I have so much envy for my wife, as her belly grows, and the baby wakes, dreams and wakes again in its own new life. I wonder if she envies me, unable as she is to be outside of it, to watch as I watch, my own becoming in another.
This was taken from his book titled, No Other Life. I highly recommend it.
I've been remembering birth lately too, and longing for it again. Needed to ask God to help enjoy right now and be patient for another 6 months. What an incredible thing God gave women. I'm almost sorry for men that they cannot experience it.
The romance of Birth...
I am only able to dream about my future children.
I miss you guys!
Beautiful. Great to see you are back!
Love this especially since I'm pregnant with my first. It's good to hear your voice again.
Matt: Indeed I remember! What a wonderful night that was. We miss you so much.
Missy: How exciting. How quickly time will pass! Matt is right, men have a glimpse into this all that is amazing as well. Especially if they can shed their cultural conditioning and learn to love birth and see the beauty in it. Shaun says that he would be a widwife/husband in a different life if he could.
Brian: We miss you. You will make an AMAZING father some day!
Leda: Yes, it is wonderful to have a working computer.
Gypsy: congratulations and good job on the one pound last month! Keep gaining and growing!