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Redstart
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0 posted 2016-09-03 02:30 PM



In a shrunken-world reality,
I lived the anticipation
with shirt-quivering, ruby beats.
She played a waiting game,
careless to her imminent genesis;
stalling her arrival
through your wincing, stifled tunes.

I wiped the damp-haired,
not-quite-a mother drops
from your oscillating brow.
Your pain:
The bitter aperitif
to a meal of twinned euphoria.

Your gift:
My elevation to the plain
of the eternally grateful;
our reason for the unification
at the casual-chance,
convergence of destinies.

Like an eager trip seeker,
I broke the phial for the man
between your legs.
As he stitched,
your pain was gone.

You held her with
your hard-earned, mother eyes,
then held her out to me
as it rushed over, and through me:
A tsunami of emotion;
a sweeping sense of wonder.


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Elizabeth
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1 posted 2016-09-03 03:38 PM


No experience is quite like the birth of a child....very well written, Redstart!

[This message has been edited by Elizabeth (09-03-2016 09:01 PM).]

JerryPat2
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2 posted 2016-09-03 06:26 PM


Had to be a wonderful, if experiencing sadness for her pain, delivery.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

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