GOD OF HER OWN DESTINY

    God of  Her Own Destiny

 

     

 

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In her mother's womb the hunger of the soul
nurtured her
till she grew strong and whole

gathering life while crying with grief

sorrowing within her mother's pain
absorbing all with naught for relief
till the womb no longer could bear the strain

of holding back the raging flood
of tears gushing out
as waters and  blood.

With pain and relief
labored her mother
while the father
lay with another.
Still within, she vowed
to avenge the shame
of sorrowing
within her mother's pain.
With all the strength
her tiny self knew
she entered the world
taking birth anew.

The elements showered blessings
as she took birth
the wind, the skies,
and Mother Earth.
The sun's embers
ignited her passions too
as stepping into youth 
her own needs grew.
Forgotten were the vows
she had taken,
sorrowing within
the mother, forsaken.

The Gods of her Destiny
had conspired to give birth
to another incomplete woman
onto this earth
whose hunger could not be
appeased by her own body's strength
and kept looking for completion
going to great  lengths
roving over and over again,
she vaguely recalled
crying within her mother's pain.

She blossomed, she bloomed, and she glowed
time passed,
some good, some bad 
till her pace was slowed
for a seed had sprouted
within her
after days of wanting and waiting;
and the pain of her mother
she no longer doubted.
As she herself labored
re-living her mother's pain
the old vows recalled
once again.

Her resolve
none could now smother
for her child was being born
to a brave, strong mother
creating a world of her own
nurturing both mother and child
she kept wiping their tears
hiding her own and learning to smile .