Saturday 31 October 2009

Birth

Pushed from your safe warm waters,
through great waves of pain.
I became a castaway,
in a world forgetting by a world already forgot.
Was it really so long ago,
that the first of us
had the courage
to leave that vast watery place
and breathe that first painful breath.
They cut the cord,
and in that instant
I had to learn
how
to
B R E A T H E.........