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Inspirational poem The Next Birth
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Inspirational poem The Next Birth
Our first birth comes with mother’s touch
or midwife’s slap. Skin shivering
into air, lungs gulp to breath and we waken
to feed and need through years
of toys and trials until, just when
we fear we might fall clear away,
along comes love again
to lift us from the common thrum
to place us where we know we all belong.
When bodies bare, we two in one combined,
and my breath became yours as much as mine,
then no day was a day of grift or thrift.
No, all that came before us came as gift.
When I knew you loved me, as I loved you,
our whole lives then began again, anew.
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And so renewed we found more toys
and trials, more years of need and feed.
The heart we’d carried when inside
beat still. And when in cold despair
we cried, or felt like we could almost die,
along came love again
to lift us from the common thrum
and place us where we know we all belong.
When spirits bare, here all in one combine,
(in ways the sages know to be divine)
and our breath becomes theirs as yours is mine,
here no day is a day of thrift or grift,
(and bridges grow across the widest rift).
Yes, all that comes before us comes as gift.
When we know life loves us and we love too,
then all our lives begin again, anew.
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