03/14/02

		'Mother'

I have lived to experience
a world of emotion.
Joy, sorrow, anger, regret.
I struggled with the
violence of youth to find peace
and then found it finally
when I gave up
and let it go.
I swam against the stream
to prove my strength
and found it both easier
and harder
to let go my fear
and pride
and flow where the currents
would lead me...
The great watery veins of the Earth.
Her life's blood.
These paths are ancient...
why did my small spark fight them so?
Have I not seen the fireflies at night
that gather by?
Do they, too, seek illumination
beneath the waters?
And will I find it in the belly
of the salmon?
Or be reborn an egg...
to hatch, to swim, and to live
brilliantly
in the pathways of wisdom
and the Mother of All?
Let my light become brighter!

			© Andrea K