#2

I’ve spent the last 11 years watching
others expand & give birth.

Intimately, at their sides

holding space at the threshold
for another Star to be born

The energy & smell of birth in the air. A constant
reminder

I’ve waited a really long time for
you: past the point of “losing it” and
giving up.

And now you are here, taking
up room inside of me.
A Star,
Expanding.

As your mother, if I have
one piece of advice to give you
it would be: Don’t Take No For An Answer.

If you shake
your fists often enough at the
heavens & you scream & whine at
the Universe long enough,
you will get your way!

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originally written sometime near the end of September 2015 while closing in on being halfway through my pregnancy with my second born, after over 11 years of trying to convince them to come Earthside.