Tuesday 3 July 2012

Birth

Take a deep breath in for me,
and wipe the ink from words.
Don’t leave their hearts bloodless,  
they beat in time with yours.
You are their river, the mouth bursts,
fish slap inside your brain.
Their hands guide, you arrive alone,
you are their only womb;
let me, reader, live. 

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