Motherlove

[Guest guest]

5/23/03

 

last night I dreamt about my mom

she had cancer; the same disease

that threatened my life once

cancer of the womb

the physical home

and hearth of motherhood

 

I got to be for her

the mother she never was

the mother she never had

 

and each time it came up

for me to react as she would have

as she did

as was done to her

 

my capacity to yield

my capacity to embrace

my capacity to understand

and my capacity to offer love

 

deepened and expanded

finally dissolving us both

until all that was left

was a huge invisible Joyness

and there was a big laughter

and it was my own