Heart beat lulls me to sleep”
He calls me, I leave behind
The speck of space in another
Place, where He knew me
Before I was born
Taking a handful of dust
He gently draws me with his
Cord of love,
I cannot see, nor mind
Understand, lingering for a
Moment, then traveling at
The speed of light,
I am immersed in the womb,
The rhythm of my mother’s
Heart beat lulling me to sleep
As my body is taking form and
Shape I am not alone
An ancestral family chain
Accompanies me, engraining
Memories grown on the family
Tree
Ring upon ring, bearing
Leaves of each generation
Their mirrors reflecting their
Shadows in me,
His clock announces the time
To enter earth’s passage way,
Water breaks forth, pain
Begins in my timely birth
Clinging to my mother’s womb,
I hear a scream, then a force
That cannot stop begins
Her cries get closer and closer
As I inch through the birth
Canal,
Slipping down the corridor
Of time, with one last cry,
She pushes forward as two
Large hands reach in
A pair of pincers with two
Metal handles grasp my head
Pulling me out
I am delivered now!
~~
I become a child, I play and laugh,
Then one day familiar voices I
Do not hear
A family once dear I cannot see,
Walking outside looking at the
Sky, could they be hiding up
There?
I don’t see them!
I cry, where are you father and
Mother?
This is the time the shadows
In the womb begin to follow
Me, sad thoughts whispering
In my ears
I am alone, the earth is empty.
Shaken, I cannot look upon
This desolation
~~
Oh weeping Prophet* your broken
Heart caused you to write a book
For a broken people
As you weep for your people
Will you shed tears for me as
Well?
Copyright (2015) Donna Nieri
*Taken from the book of ‘Jeremiah’
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