"Birth
Pangs and Pains"
Poetry by Michael F. Nyiri
May 1st, 2006 4:40 am pdt
Uncomfortable for months
Excrutiating for hours
Intensely and unconscionably painful
A mother releases her secret from the womb
stretching her own vaginal walls
to their almost breaking point
can life be any more intense than this?
then scant moments later
the pain of immediacy
after nine long months in existential hibernation
screams as life's call
the beginning again
soft wrinkly skin
still attached to the feeding tube
:then released
with a sharp cut and cry
two as one
during gestation,
then the subtraction of one from the other
the eternal equation
adding, multiplying, dividing
sending life to it's own reward
the mother sighs
whether the first or the fifth
the pains and powerful emotions
drain the soul for a moment
then fill it with wonder astounding
after the cries and the distressing
after the sighs and the blessings
new life exists with all life
now and as it should be
forever
Poetry
2006
