Heavenly Mother By Elaine Jarvis

Heavenly Mother

By Elaine Jarvis

God, I need to know,

do you have breasts?

And did you nurse creation

at your bosom?

Did you cradle it in newness---

tiny, fragile, wailing,

and feel the swell

of hopes and dreams

and Awe?

Did you, too, discover far too quickly

that to love someone you also must let go?

All my life, Lord,

I've known you as

HE

and that has been okay

until today.

Today, as I carry

in my heart,

and fear,

and prayer,

the child I also carried in my womb,

I need you to be

my heavenly Mother.

Today

I could not trust a God

who had not also

gazed with empty womb

upon the life she bore into existence

and asked,

"What more shall Love ask me to bear?"

From:  "Perhaps A Door - New and Selected a Poems" by Elaine Jarvis

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