nine months in your womb, <br />waiting to emerge, <br />lulled to sleep by <br />the music of your heartbeat, <br />I slept and awoke <br />with you, <br />I cried and laughed with you, <br />an eternal lullaby, <br />the music of your heartbeat, <br />and then it was time, <br />natures design, <br />I was born, <br />into this world, <br />cradled in your arms <br />nourished by your breast, <br />nurtured by your love <br />my very personna, <br />fashioned by your genes, <br />enhanced by your pride in me, <br />I grew, <br />I languished in the warmth of your love <br />I learnt to be a woman of letters <br />always encouraged by your guiding hand <br />your gentle reprimand, <br />when my steps faltered <br />and I corrected myself, <br />today I am a woman, <br />confidant, proud, <br />aware of my strength, <br />revelling in the glory, <br />of my uniqueness <br />Only I can give birth, <br />only I can bring fruitition, <br />to the process of creation, <br />a new life, <br />a new destiny, <br />a new soul, <br />but alas, <br />who is the one who dishonours me? <br />shames me, blames me? <br />abuses me, and uses me? <br />only men..... <br />to who I give birth..... <br />men who I mother, <br />men who I care for, <br />who I am a companion to, <br />who I m a friend to, <br />who I am a wife to, <br />for who I live, <br />and die, <br />for who I earn, <br />perhaps it will change <br />perhaps it will be better, <br />a new hope, <br />a new dawn, <br />of a better earth, <br />a better life <br />for a woman, <br />the mother <br />the sister, <br />the wife <br />the soulmate <br />and it will be <br />as it was meant to be <br />living in perfect unity <br />in a natural harmony <br />a beautiful symhony, <br />of two people <br />each complementing the other <br />we must never forget <br />always respect <br />the woman, <br />the giver, <br />the nurturer, <br />the earthmother.<br /><br />Arti Chopra<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/woman-the-earthmother/
